"Afro-Caribbean influences are in me as a creative being the same way Spanish influences were in Picasso's work. I think the notion of labels - "black dancer, black choreographer" -is a ploy to divide and conquer, and to limit."

-- Garth Fagan

#Dance Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Creative Quotes

“My penalty for rocking the boat was being traded.”
“When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.”

Source : Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.110, New Victoria Publishers
“During critical periods, a leader is not allowed to feel sorry for himself, to be down, to be angry, or to be weak. Leaders must beat back these emotions”
“You talking to me? You talking to me? Then who the hell else are you talking to - you talking to me? Well, I'm the only one here.”

Source : "Fictional character: Travis Bickle". "Taxi Driver", www.imdb.com. 1976.
“I'd like somebody to breed a male, genus homo, who could go and fetch a 12" x 8" black suÃ¨de purse lying in the middle of a white bedspread and not come back looking baffled and saying he couldn't find it.”

Source : Margaret Halsey (1944). “...Some of My Best Friends are Soldiers: A Kind of Novel”
“We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession. Murder, crime, poverty, these things don't concern me. What concerns me are celebrity magazines, television with 500 channels, some guy's name on my underwear. Rogaine, Viagra, Olestra...”
“Even the disappointing diffusion of a sheer curtain can suggest the most colorful bouquet of unspeakable secrets.”
“The labour Party has lost the last four elections. If they lose another, they get to keep the liberal party.”

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