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. They pray so much I can almost imagine Jesus himself sitting up there on a white puffy cloud saying, "Oh for the love of my dad, shut the fuck up already. I heard you the first eleven times.

Tara Sivec

#3. Someone who seeks nothing but his own fate no longer has any companions, he stands quite alone and has only cold, universal space around him.

Hermann Hesse

#4. Lennon was not very fond of me. Lennon didn't like to be around somebody else who was likely to be the center of attention and didn't like being on deck with somebody who was intellectually as hot as he was.

Peter Fonda

#5. 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

#6. Moslem conquest.

Charles E. Chapman

#7. We do not aspire to communal life but to a life apart.

Max Stirner

#8. 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

#9. You have a physical human reaction to something that another human being made. When you remove the human from it, and you chop it up, make it all perfect, you have a different reaction. Something is not there. You can feel it when it's there.

Alison Mosshart

#10. Laugh it up, asshole. But she who laughs last laughs longest, and I intend to belly roll tonight ~Tabitha

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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

Fred Moten

#12. Reading Ellen's hilarious new book. Thirsty for tequila.

Ellen DeGeneres