Imperatrice Quotes

#1. (Tradition) is the democracy of the dead.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#2. If poetry is outta style then I wish to bring it back

Justin Bienvenue

#3. Man with goatee. Man who looked like a Beatle. All the Beatles at once. Woman wearing newspaper hat. I'd grown used to how weird New Yorkers were, and I could fit them into types.

Olivia Sudjic

#4. Sometimes we become so sophisticated we have to read the New York Times in order to figure out whether it's a hot or a rainy day.

June Jordan

#5. In my mind's eye, my chess pieces had grown into lines of dark-skinned men marching forward, being beaten by a white army and crumpling one by one into my father's waiting arms, bloodstains blossoming across their shoulders. (32)

Padma Venkatraman

#6. Once a sarriyal, always a sarriyal, she thought.

Sara Naveed

#7. You speak of yourself and others who were in your same position as objects."
Boyd's eyebrows ticked up. "Isn't that what I am? I was merchandise there but now I'm back to being a tool. It's nothing but semantics.

Santino Hassell

#8. This is an extremely foolish and stupid and idiotic kind of attitude - to expect theatres to make money. Do the public schools make money? Do libraries make money? Does the zoo make money? D o the sewers make money? It's a community service.

John Hirsch

#9. What if...? A question we ask to hurt ourselves.

Susan Fletcher