Toni Morrison, from Beloved
“Definitions belong to the definers---not the defined.”
Joy Harjo, from Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light
“Everyone laughed at the impossibility of it
But also the truth. Because who would believe
The fantastic and terrible story of all of our survival…”
Ralph Ellison, from Invisible Man
“Why, they even tried to dispossess us of our dislike of
being dispossessed! And I’ll tell you something else—if we don’t resist, pretty
soon they’ll succeed! These are the days of dispossession, the season of
homelessness, the time of evictions. We’ll be dispossessed of the very brains
in our heads!”
Elizabeth Grosz, from Chaos. Territory. Art.
“While there is no universal art, no art form, no music or
painting, that appeals everywhere in the same way, it is also true that there
is no culture without its own arts, without its own forms of bodily enhancement
and intensification.”
Tony
Alva, skateboarding legend, in Thrasher magazine
“You can hurt your style with your fashion choices, but the
bottom line is how you’re handling your shit on the board.”
“You can’t just be all about partying and girls, you gotta
still go kill it.”
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