“For there are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt-of examining what those ideas feel like being lived on a Sunday morning at 7 a.m., after brunch, during wild love, making war, giving birth, mourning our dead-while we suffer the old longings, battle the old warnings and fears of beingContinue reading “RKS AMERICAN LITERATURE: There Are No New Ideas (Audre Lorde)”
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RKS AMERICAN LITERATURE: Militancy Does Not Mean Guns Blazing at High Noon (Audre Lorde)
“We who are Black are at an extraordinary point of choice within our lives. To refuse to participate in the shaping of our future is to give it up. Do not be misled into passivity either by false security (they don’t mean me) or by despair (there’s nothing we can do). Each of us mustContinue reading “RKS AMERICAN LITERATURE: Militancy Does Not Mean Guns Blazing at High Noon (Audre Lorde)”
RKS AMERICAN LITERATURE: Tokensim the Neutralizer of Creativity (Audre Lorde)
“And in the university that is no easy task, for each one of you by virtue of you being here will be deluged by opportunities to misname yourselves. To forget who you are, to forget where your real interests lie. Make no mistake you will be courted; and nothing neutralizes creativity quicker than tokensim. ThatContinue reading “RKS AMERICAN LITERATURE: Tokensim the Neutralizer of Creativity (Audre Lorde)”
RKS AMERICAN LITERATURE: BLACK Survival Skills (Audre Lorde)
“One of the most basic Black survival skills is the ability to change, to metabolize experience, good or ill, into something that is useful, lasting, effective. Four hundred years of survival as an endangered species has taught most of us that if we intend to live, we had better become fast learners. Malcom knew this.Continue reading “RKS AMERICAN LITERATURE: BLACK Survival Skills (Audre Lorde)”
RKS AMERICAN LITERATURE: Do You Cast the Right or Wrong Person for a Movie Role? (Andy Warhol)
“If I ever have to cast an acting role, I want the wrong person for the part. I can never visualize the right person in a part. The right person for the part would be too much. Besides, no person is ever completely right for any part, because a part is a role is neverContinue reading “RKS AMERICAN LITERATURE: Do You Cast the Right or Wrong Person for a Movie Role? (Andy Warhol)”
RKS AMERICAN LITERATURE: How to Make America More Beautiful (Andy Warhol)
“The most beautiful thing in Tokyo is McDonald’s. The most beautiful thing in Stockholm is McDonald’s. The most beautiful thing in Florence is McDonald’s. America is really The Beautiful. But it would be more beautiful if everybody had enough money to live.” Andy Warhol, “Fame”, 1975.
RKS AMERICAN LITERATURE: Talkers vs. Beauties (Andy Warhol)
“I don’t really care that much about ‘Beauties’. What I really like are ‘Talkers’. To me, good talkers are beautiful because good talk is what I love. The word itself shows why I like Talkers better than Beauties, why I tape more than I film. It’s not ‘talkies’. Talkers are doing something. Beauties are beingContinue reading “RKS AMERICAN LITERATURE: Talkers vs. Beauties (Andy Warhol)”
RKS AMERICAN LITERATURE: Committing Faux Pas When Talking to People in Love (Andy Warhol)
“It’s very easy to make faux pas when you’re talking to a person who’s in love, because they’re more sensitive about everything. I remember once I was at a dinner party and I was talking to a couple who looked so happy together and I said, “You are the happiest looking couple I’ve ever seen.’Continue reading “RKS AMERICAN LITERATURE: Committing Faux Pas When Talking to People in Love (Andy Warhol)”
RKS AMERICAN LITERATURE: Fantasies Giving Rise to Problems (Andy Warhol)
“People’s fantasies are what give them problems. If you didn’t have fantasies you wouldn’t have problems because you’d just take whatever was there. But then you wouldn’t have romance, because romance is finding your fantasy in people who don’t have it. A friend of mine always says, ‘Women love me for the man I’m not.”Continue reading “RKS AMERICAN LITERATURE: Fantasies Giving Rise to Problems (Andy Warhol)”
RKS AMERICAN LITERATURE: Fascination with Boys Spending Their Lives Trying to be Complete Girls (Andy Warhol)
“I’m fascinated by boys who spend their lives trying to be complete girls, because they have to work so hard-double time getting rid of all the tell-tale male signs and drawing in all the female signs. I’m not saying it’s the right thing to do, I’m not saying it’s a good idea, I’m not sayingContinue reading “RKS AMERICAN LITERATURE: Fascination with Boys Spending Their Lives Trying to be Complete Girls (Andy Warhol)”
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