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     Bayou Lights Rating: N/A |
Hey, Folks -- Thought I'd try and lighten things up. I'd love to hear some of your favorite lines/quotes/paragraphs from some of your favorite books or great lines from movies. I'll start it off -- "She had nothing to fall back on; not maleness, not whiteness, not ladyhood, not anything. And out of profound desolation of her reality she may have well have invented herself". -Toni Morrison - "I gave her my heart, and she gave me a pen". -Say Anything- "I'm looking for a dare to be great situation". -Say Anything- Bayou | ||
| yukio Rating: N/A |
Bayou Lights, Where did u get the TM quote? Here's one: "If the city is a man, a giant sprawled for miles on his back, rough contours of his body smothering the rolling landscape, the rivers and woods, hills and valleys, bumps and gullies, crushing with his weight, his shadow, all the life beneath him, a derelict in a terminal stupor, too exhausted, too wasted to move, rotting in the sun, then Cudjoe is deep within the giant's stomach, in a subway-surface car shuddering through stinking loops of gut, tunnels carved out of decaying flesh, a prisoner of rumbling innards that sceam when trolleys pass over rails enbedded in flesh." John Edgar Wideman, Philadelphia Fire This is, i think, my favorite! | ||
| Bayou Lights Rating: N/A |
Yukio-- I love your posts - so clear, so insightful and I always come away with something new. Peace to you. I wrote the Morrison quote down a long time ago, so long ago that I can't find the reference. If anyone can identify the source I would be grateful. Another movie quote... "Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true". -Point Break" Book Quotes: "Don't look down on a man unless you're offering to help him up". -Street Graffiti referenced in "Hell to Pay" by George Pelecanos And I love the longing in this passage. "Oh, Jake", Brett Said,"we could have had such a damn good time together". "Yes", I said, "Isn't it pretty to think so". That gets me everytime. Bayou | ||
| yukio Rating: N/A |
Bayou Lights, This is fun! Thank you for the gracious comments. I feel the same about your posts! good night! | ||
| Kola Rating: |
"The ax forgets...but the tree, it remembers"--African Proverb "They had to pity a thing...before they could like it"---Toni Morrison, BELOVED "Don't stick a knife in my back, pull it out 3 inches and then tell me we're...making progress", --Malcolm X (known in Sudan as "Red Roosta"), his Autobiography "There's a name for women like you...but I wouldn't use it outside of a kennel"--Joan Crawford, THE WOMEN 1939 "The Black woman is the meteor that is coming to this earth"--Kola Boof/the closing line spoken by Zora in the short story collection "Long Train to the Redeeming Sin" From Color Purple: "Why you cry'n Miss Sofia?" Sofia say, "Cause Yall don't know me no more". Alice Walker "But I don't know how to fight!"--Celie, Color Purple Egyptian Hieroglythics in Karnak: "The Blacker she is, the more woman she is. Too much woman blocks the sun." (said in reference to the mother of the human race, the first human being--Asli Nalla) "Look on me and be renewed"--Mari Evans "The Revolution will not be televised"--Gil Scott Heron "Niggaz is SCARED of revolution"--1970's Black Rebels/Gil Scott Heron "Aren't we all just a bunch of busy little bees?"--Bette Davis, All About Eve 1950 "What us gone eat?"--SHUG AVERY "Sex is good for the soul"--???? "Be more concerned with what comes out of ones mouth than what goes in it"--Holy Bible "I'm not your bitch, I'm not your HO...you better know what you used to know"--Kola Boof responding to a rapper during a Radio interview. "The people don't like confrontation...but confrontation is what they NEED"--Lauryn Hill "I AM THE GREATEST!"--King Muhammed Ali "I don't know if I'm leading my people to freedom or into a burning house"--Martin Luther King Jr., 8 days before he was killed. "You GOT to take what you want"--Sojourner Truth "Bring me my GOT-DAMN kids!!"--Azuli Amoumbo Kishra addressing a White woman trying to kiss her children on a Senegalese beach. "Make me feel good"--Halle Berry "I'd rather live in his world...than live without him...in mine"--Gladys Knight (Midnight Train to Georgia) "porgy...don't let them get me and handle me"--Nina Simone (Porgy and Bess) "I want my Black man. Just once before I die."--Nina Simone "..a feeling so divine...til I leave the past behind"--Diana Ross (I Hear a Symphony) "So let it be written...so let it be done"--Creed of the ancient NUBIANS of Sudan. "The only way to change a man...is to leave him"--My Egyptian father used to say that. "The more you know...the more you owe"--NANA, My Black American grandmother always told me that. "If you truly believe in God, then be careful not to brag--for if God observes that you are strong enough to take a bullet--then surely he will arrange for you to be shot. That is the way of all Gods, Hell-in. I don't do interviews."--Nuntandi speaking from BOY MAGIC by Kola Boof "Why lets look for the moon...when we have the stars?"--Bette Davis (Now Voyager) "In search of my mother's garden...I found my own."--Alice Walker "Amen"--Prophet Ciisa, a Black man (a.k.a. Jesus Christ) . | ||
| Crystal Rating: N/A |
"Easy look, if you ain't want him kilt why'd you leave him with me?" Mouse in Devil in a Blue Dress. I'm still upset Mr. Cheadle wasn't nominated and didn't win an oscar for that role. He MADE that movie! | ||
| Cynique Rating: N/A |
OK, here's my entry: For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And what is it to cease breathing, but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered? Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance. Kahlil Gibran, "The Prophet" | ||
| Anon Rating: N/A |
"Lady, I don't know what the hell you are talking about." -- Elvis Presley movie | ||
| Booked Rating: N/A |
It's been a long while since I've posted, but I had to get in on this! I love this description of 19th century New Orleans from Middle Passage by Charles Johnson: "So it seemed those first few months to the country boy with cotton in his hair, a great whore of a city in her glory, a kind of glandular Golden Age. She was if not a town devoted to an almost religious pursuit of Sin, then at least to a steamy sexuality. To the newcomer she was an assault of smells: molasses commingled with mangoes in the sensually damp air, the stench of slop in a muddy street, and, from the labyrinthine warehouses on the docks, the odor of Braxilian coffee and Mexican oils." | ||
| Claxton Rating: N/A |
One of my favorite quotes is actually from a speech, given on May 25, 1961, by President Kennedy to a joint session of Congress. Three weeks after Alan Shepard's 15-minute flight in a tiny Mercury spacecraft, Kennedy set the bar for America's ultimate target in space. "I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. No single project of this period will be more impressive to mankind or more important to the long-range exploration of space, and none will be so diffucult or expensive to accomplish." And a snippet of dialog from the 70s vintage disaster movie "Meteor". This particular piece, occuring late in the movie, features the late Sir Trevor Howard, an English astronomer, conferring with his American counterpart, played by Sean Connery: Howard (from England): There's another splinter. A big one. Connery (from New York City): Direction? Howard: The United States. The Eastern Seaboard. Connery: You mean us? Howard: Near enough. Connery: Due when? Howard: Just about...now! |
