"I always say that my artist statement is to not be afraid to talk about the messiness - the unpleasant feelings and happenings around my life. I also try to convey what it feels like and sounds like and smells like and looks like inside of my particular skin, to move through the world as a black American woman in her mid-twenties. Language from songs and TV shows feel integral because it helps to create the environment and describe the full picture."

Source : "There’s Poetry About Beyoncé Now - And It’s Amazing". Interview with Becca Andrews, www.motherjones.com. February 15, 2017.

Morgan Parker

#Song Quotes #Moving Quotes #Artist Quotes

“We each deal with childhood in different ways. That brothers and sisters can take the same lump of clay that is childhood and use it to shape themselves into unique human beings is a miracle in itself. Despite individual struggles, triumphs, joys and disappointments, someone is made of the same stuff and has been at your side, whether figuratively or literally, from the beginning. Use our brother and sister quote collection to explore this truth and gain compassionate understanding for yourself and your siblings.”
“I just don't fit into the box.”

Source : "Liz Phair Interview" by Melanie Haupt, www.austinchronicle.com. March 14, 2003.
“I judge people's charm by the ease with which I express myself in their presence.”
“I'm thinking balls are to men, what purses are to women. It's just a little bag but we'd feel naked in public without it.”

Source : "Fictional character: Carrie Bradshaw". "Sex and the City" (TV Series), www.imdb.com. 1998-2004.
“Je suis venu au monde tres jeune dans un temps tres vieux”

Source : Erik Satie, IVAM Centre Julio González (1996). “Erik Satie: del chat noir a dadá : IVAM Centre Julio González, 19 septiembre-10 noviembre 1996”
“My high school wasn't a big public school; it was tiny. There were 36 girls in my graduating class. We were a big group of girls that by the time senior year came along couldn't wait to get away from school fast enough but we loved each other. It's really fun to see the girls at reunions now.”
“You could say Shakespeare is so extraordinary precisely because he was so ordinary. He had all the usual anxieties and understandings of what it is to have children, lose children, get married, struggle to make a living and so on.”
“The most beautiful act of faith is the one made in darkness, in sacrificing, and with extreme effort.”

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