142nd Street Quotes

#1. DeLois lived up the block on 142nd Street and never had her hair done, and all the neighbourhood women sucked their teeth as she walked by. Her crispy hair twinkled in the summer sun as her big proud stomach moved her on down the block while I watched, not caring whether or not she was a poem.

Audre Lorde

#2. You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don't you use them in the search for love?

Lech Walesa

#3. I have been confronted with many difficulties throughout the course of my life, and my country is going through a critical period. But I laugh often, and my laughter is contagious. When people ask me how I find the strength to laugh now, I reply that I am a professional laugher.

Dalai Lama

#4. I spent my earliest years in Colwyn Bay in north Wales with my mother and grandmother, while my father was stationed with the RAF in India.

Terry Jones

#5. The madder he knows you to be, the better. Saves disappointment, don't it?

Sarah Waters

#6. Jesus Christ is the access to God....Revelation is the access to the knowledge of God

Dr Lloyd Magangeni

#7. When a lifestyle is created from the existence of your dream, you dont leave any room for failure.

Nikki Rowe

#8. Loss taught me. It taught me that I won't have people around me forever. The good I need to do to someone today, I may not have the opportunity to do tomorrow.

Nana Awere Damoah

#9. I was always looking for the same man - a strong father figure.

Evelyn Keyes

#10. L.A. is only where you live, because otherwise it's just a sprawling mass of everything, and I think if you live in L.A., you get a little network of places you go, and people you see, and when you leave town, you do miss those places and your friends.

Steve Martin

#11. Yet for quixotic reasons
namely, that I enjoyed writing obits
I had decided to scale back on articles about city life in order to write exclusively about the city's dead. For even less money. It was a strange and inexplicable career move.

Avi Steinberg

#12. Art is spiritual.

John Cusack

#13. L.A. is still such a fascinating place to me, so big and diverse. It's so spread out that you can go from Zuma to downtown and there's really like 10 different towns in between.

Dylan McDermott