Sunday, May 10, 2009

Quotes I Like

I tell them dance begins when a moment of hurt combines with a moment of boredom. It tell them it's the body reaching, bringing air into itself. I tell them that it's the heart's triumph, the victory speech of the feet, the refinement of animal lunge and flight, the purest metaphor of tribe and self. It's life flipping death the bird.
- Dance in America by Lorrie Moores


I need to know to what cross of stereotypes I'm going to be crucified because in the coloring book of skin I need to draw outside the lines.
- Alvin Lau


When my spirit leaves my flesh, let my tombstone, let it carve, let it say; The Life of a Refuge. To live for yourself is to live selfishly, but to live for others is to live eternally, and I, Wyclef Jean live for all humanity.
- Wyclef Jean


I challenge you to find something that you're really willing to die for, and then live for it.
- Black Ice


The Lord may not always come when you call, but he's always on time.
- Lemon