I dropped out of school, but I didn’t drop out of life. I would leave the house each morning and go to the main branch of the Carnegie Library in Oakland where they had all the books in the world… I felt suddenly liberated from the constraints of a pre-arranged curriculum that labored through one book in eight months. August Wilson Read Quote
Paule Marshall does not let the black women in her fiction lose. While they lose friends, lovers, husbands, homes, or jobs, they always find themselves. Darryl Pinckney Read Quote
The good news about being full of crap is that once you’re willing to admit that you’re full of crap, you can de-crap yourself. Jen Sincero Read Quote
I always like when things are loosely based on real events. That always makes it more interesting because there’s a lot of research you can do. Katia Winter Read Quote
So-called leaders aren’t doing anything, so it’s become the job of artists like me. We have to get on the front lines and fight for the people who have love and tolerance in their hearts and want to live in a unified world. Fantastic Negrito Read Quote
Heartbreak is a luxury in my opinion. In a lot of places in the world there’s no time for that. People are worried about how they’re going to get their next meal. There’s no time to cry over someone. Julia Fox Read Quote
I don’t think that people accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable. It seems like religion and myth were invented against that, trying to make sense out of it. David Lynch Read Quote
