Fred Moten Quotes

#1. Fred Moten is a poet I really love because he changes who is telling the poem all the time.

Eileen Myles

#2. That which you think today becomes that which you are tomorrow.

Napoleon Hill

#3. The coalition emerges out of your recognition that it's fucked up for you, in the same way that we've already recognized that it's fucked up for us. I don't need your help. I just need you to recognize that this shit is killing you, too, however much more softly, you stupid motherfucker, you know?

Fred Moten

#4. Angelina would have gone on loving Edwin forever and ever and ever if only Edwin had not grown so strange and different. Edwin would have adored Angelina through eternity if Angelina had only remained the same as when he first adored her.

Jerome K. Jerome

#5. we can speculate on the relay of our common activity, make a circle round our errant roots. Dancing is what we make of falling. Music is what we make of music's absence, the real presence making music underneath. I'm exhausted so my soul is rested.

Fred Moten

#6. I'm not really a conspiracy nut, but I think if I went down a slightly different route in my life instead of meeting and marrying the person I met, I may have gone down this other direction and got myself stuck in my head with my ideas and my thoughts and I'm into UFOs and paranormal subject matter.

Rhys Darby

#7. ...[T]he United States is the land of formal democratic enclosure...

Fred Moten

#8. For a case study in personal branding. Google "Jarod Kintz." He's kind of a big deal.

Ryan Lilly

#9. Images are ... musical. The way they are put together are musical.

Meredith Monk