OUR PURPOSE IS SIMPLE . . . TO LOVE — TO LOVE EACH OTHER — TO LOVE ALL LIFE — TO LOVE OUR EARTH. ANTHONY DOUGLAS WILLIAMS
CICELY TYSON 1924-2021. “Sounder” “A Fall From Grace”. “Madea's Family”
I WILL LEAD MY PEOPLE OUT OF BONDAGE, LORD.
CHALLENGES make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch — what makes you go beyond the norm.
I AM NOT A QUITTER. I will fight until I drop. It is just a matter of having some faith in the fact that as long as you are able to draw breath in the universe, you have a chance.
IF each person in this world will simply take a small piece of this huge thing, this amazing quilt and work it regardless of the color of the yarn, we will have harmony on this planet.
I THINK when you begin to think of yourself as having achieved something, then there's nothing left for you to work towards. I want to believe that there is a mountain so high that I will spend my entire life striving to reach the top of it.
WHATEVER good I have accomplished as an actress I believe came in direct proportion to my efforts to portray black women who have made positive contributions to my heritage.
I SAW that I could not afford the luxury of just being an actress. so I made a choice to use my career as a platform to address there issues of the race I was born into.
You never know what motivates you.
CHILDREN should have a balanced start in life: a mother and a father. I think that's the only reason to get married.
JEAN GENET 1910-1986–“Our Lady of the Flowers” “The Thief's Journal”.
THE PIMP HAS A GRIN, NEVER A SMILE.
POETRY is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible.
SOLITUDE, as I understand it, does not signify an unhappy state but rather secret royalty, profound incommunicability yet a more or less obscure knowledge of an invulnerable singularity.
A MAN MUST DREAM a long time in order to act with grandeur & dreaming is nursed in darkness.
ANYONE who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.
IT'S A TRUE IMAGE — BORN OF FALSE SPECTACLE.
TO ACHIEVE HARMONY IN BAD TASTE IS THE HEIGHT OF ELEGANCE.
I RECOGNIZE in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty — a sunken beauty.
PRISONS! PRISONS! Prisons, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible since they are the crossroads of all the malediction in the world. One cannot commit evil in evil.
PERHAPS ALL MUSIC, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.