"When I have White, I win because I am white; When I have Black, I win because I am Bogolyubov"

“Peculiar as I was, and remain, I was trained to be practical. I'm still amazed at the radical temerity of my friends, you included, Julie, who choose poetry as their vocation. I envy your faith.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

“Justice, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.”

Source : Zora Neale Hurston (1969). “Dust tracks on a road”

“Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours.”

“The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, culture. It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing art to defend their collapsing culture.”

Source : George Grosz, Heartfield, Wieland Herzfelde (1987). “Art Is in Danger”

“I still feel that I am in my prime right now but I think my best fights were in my thirties.”

“Close your eyes and turn your face into the wind. Feel it sweep along your skin in an invisible ocean of exultation. Suddenly, you know you are alive.”

“Being from Staten Island and Brooklyn, I'm used to eating pasta and meatballs every single day.”

“Stupidity is a personal achievement which transcends national boundaries.”