"I decided, if I'm going to be poor and black and all, the least thing I'm going to do is to try and find out who I am. I created everything about me."

-- Ornette Coleman

#Who I Am Quotes #Discovery Quotes #Black Quotes

“I've always felt that the basic unit of writing fiction is the sentence, and the basic unit of the screenplay is the scene.”
“Cultural survival is not about preservation, sequestering indigenous peoples in enclaves like some sort of zoological specimens. Change itself does note destroy a culture. All societies are constantly evolving. Indeed a culture survives when it has enough confidence in its past and enough say in its future to maintain its spirit and essence through all the changes it will inevitably undergo.”
“Know that I am extremely proud of all that is 'Ween.”

Source : "Aaron Freeman on Retiring Ween: 'My Decision Was Not Made in Haste'". www.rollingstone.com. June 20, 2012.
“Men are respectable only as they respect.”
“A person without a memory is either a child or an amnesiac. A country without a memory is neither a child nor an amnesiac, but neither is it a country.”

Source : Mary Astor (1971). “A life on film”
“A poem is a liminal space that can offer a sensation of belonging. A poem won't bring you a cold beer, but it may offer you a stool where you can sit down and feel momentarily at home. LGBT folks need intergenerational spaces where their lives and experiences are foregrounded.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“What I am proud of is I have searched for the best of me and I have been a team man without fail.”

Source : "Jonny Wilkinson made all England feel wonderful: we will never forget" by Robert Kitson, www.theguardian.com. December 12, 2011.
“You ought not to heal the body without the soul, for this is the great error of our day in treating the human body.”

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