Audre Lorde // "Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay men are expected to educate the heterosexual world. The oppressors maintain their position and evade their responsibility for their own actions. There is a constant drain of energy which might be better used in redefining ourselves and devising realistic scenarios for altering the present and constructing the future."
Wolfgang Tillmans // "Only the brave show what they love."
Tim Burton // "Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams?"
John Steinbeck // "That's why I'm talking to you. You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your preconception. You see what it is, where most people see what they expect."
Gabriel Garcia Marquez // "It is not true that people stop pursuing their dreams because they grow old...they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams."
James Baldwin // "It's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself. You become a collaborator, an accomplice of your own murderers, because you believe the same things they do... You have somehow to begin to break out of all that and try to become yourself. It's hard for anybody... Hard, because you've got to divorce yourself from the standards of that society."
Joni Mitchell // "The most important thing is to write in your own blood. I bare intimate feelings because people should know how other people feel."
David Lynch // "Keep your eye on the doughnut, not on the hole."
Leo Tolstoy // "Until you do what you believe in, you don't know whether you believe it or not."
Richard Avedon // "How many pictures have you torn up because you hate them? What ends up in your scrapbook? The pictures where you look like a good guy and a good family man, and the children look adorable...and they're screaming the next minute. I've never seen a family album of screaming people."
Al Pacino // "There's no such thing as too far. You understand? You push everything as far as you can. You push and you push and you push until it starts pushing back. And then you push some goddamn more."
Vincent Van Gogh // "I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say, 'He feels deeply, he feels tenderly.'"