"When I first moved to New York I wanted to be a dancer, I danced professionally for years, living a hand-to-mouth existence."

-- Madonna Ciccone

#New York Quotes #Hands Quotes #Years Quotes

“Being a kind, emperor, or president is mighty small potatoes compared to being a mother. Commanding an army is little more than sweeping a street compared with training a boy or girl. The mother of Moses did more for the world than all the kinds that Egypt ever had. Oh, you wait until you reach the mountains of eternity, then read the mothers' names in God's Hall of Fame.”
“Totally. I think things are beautiful when you donâ€™t plan them, and you donâ€™t have any expectations, and youâ€™re not trying to get somewhere in particular. Youâ€™re just enjoying it, and making something because you love it, and love the people that youâ€™re playing with. I guess everything happens as a reason.”
“Poetry is an intimate act. It's about bringing forth something that's inside you--whether it is a memory, a philosophical idea, a deep love for another person or for the world, or an apprehension of the spiritual. It's about making something, in language, which can be transmitted to others--not as information, or polemic, but as irreducible art.”

Source : Kim Addonizio, Dorianne Laux (2010). “The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry”, p.22, W. W. Norton & Company
“By starting from the ground and tapping into the absolute, uncheatable truth of nature we can make ourselves better”
“men are not born with a faculty for the universal and ... women are not reduced at birth to the particular. The universal has been, and is continually, at every moment, appropriated by men. It does not happen by magic, it must be done. It is an act, a criminal act, perpetrated by one class against another. It is an act carried out at the level of concepts, philosophy, politics.”

Source : Monique Wittig (1992). “The Straight Mind: And Other Essays”, Beacon Press (MA)
“There hasn't been one moment in my career where I felt I didn't have any control over the creative aspects of my records.”
“Hosni Mubarak was the glue that held very leaderless and organic and very pluralistic mix of people together. Now that he's gone, there's a lot more debate and division about what happens next, which is healthy. We're essentially still under military dictatorship right now. The military rules the country. It can issue laws by decree.”
“I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.”

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