"I recorded that because it happened to me. I wasn't making a point"

--

Robert Mapplethorpe

“Honestly, I'm not a big movie buff in general. The only movies I own is probably the 'Indiana Jones' trilogy.”
“I'm not all dolled up. We tried to keep it as real as we could. We're telling you something that happened. It's a part of history. I hope this movie [ 'Surviving Compton'] gives you a little bit of me and of my music and my heart.”
“Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.”
“Political liberty is nothing else but the diffusion of power.”
“I probably did too much thinking in India. I blame it on the roads, for they were superb...”
“To have peace and not war, the drift toward a war economy, as facilitated by the moves and the demands of the sophisticated conservatives, must be stopped; to have peace without slump, the tactics and policies of the practical right must be overcome. The political and economic power of both must be broken. The power of these giants of main drift is both economically and politically anchored; both unions and an independent labor party are needed to struggle effective.”
“Traffic in Joburg is like the democratic process. Every time you think it's going to get moving and take you somewhere, you hit another jam.”

Source : Lauren Beukes (2010). “Zoo City”, p.84, Jacana Media
“Pretended to see nothing in the old woman's taunts. Very hard to imagine nothingness.”

Source : Georg Ebers “The Historical Romances of Georg Ebers”, Library of Alexandria

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