Wanda Coleman (the L.A. Blueswoman) Quotes
As if channeling Robbe-Grillet, who strove to establish 'new relations between man and the world,' Sesshu Foster's electrifying prose poems tenderly examine then fiercely weave stark-and-broken realities into luminous dream-like narratives on the game of life.
Quotes to Explore
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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I don't spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doing various challenges around the world. The best place I've ever been is Argentina.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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I always tell young athletes the same thing, 'Wherever you go, whatever you do, what must your top priority be? Running.'
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You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
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I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of putting on makeup and a costume, I have to invariably do it in the same order every time, even if I only did it by chance the first time round.
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I'm a bad interview because I want to always feel like I'm being totally honest, but at the same time, I'm absolutely paranoid. That combination results in a lot of spaces.
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Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.
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I'm trying to see what way I could lead so when the opportunity comes, it won't just hit me in the face.
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I'm interested in directing movies about situations that I've lived, so they are almost a personal essay about what I've come to believe in.
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I like BBC news; I like some London news because you can get it earlier then anywhere else. I like Charlie Rose a lot.
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I don't want to be a celebrity.
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You never saw a very busy person who was unhappy.
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I met Jason on a charity walk in 2001, and we got married on a friend's boat in Panama two years later. It was the perfect wedding for two people who'd already been married and who weren't teenagers.
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Like most manic depressives, some of my symptoms included racing thoughts that I simply had to act upon - flying from New York to Paris and taking the train to Berlin; flying to Argentina in the middle of the night; spending tens of thousands of dollars on unnecessary garments, dinners and gifts.
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I go around the country and do a simple gag like, 'The property ladder is now a snake' and get a real laugh.
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I don't think I would have written a combat novel if I had just had peacetime military training. I think, in fact, I probably would have remained a poet and just written a short story every now and then.
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You can go to a play that is enjoyable because it's funny, and then on the next night you can go to a play that's enjoyable because it's 'disturbing.'
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... any woman who accepts aloneness as the natural by-product of success is accepting a punishment for a crime she didn't commit. And she is not acknowledging one of the most precious lessons of the women's movement, the lessons of community ... We may not able to tell women that there is safety in freedom. But we certainly can say, with absolute certainty, that for free women, the only safety is in numbers.
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'I think the Holy Grail is a dream that men have, a dream that the world can be made perfect. And if it existed, then we'd all know the dream can't come true.'
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As if channeling Robbe-Grillet, who strove to establish 'new relations between man and the world,' Sesshu Foster's electrifying prose poems tenderly examine then fiercely weave stark-and-broken realities into luminous dream-like narratives on the game of life.
