Something traumatic happened to me when I was younger. I was with this old black woman, and she was very wise, very Alice Walker, The Color Purple… She looked at me and she says, "Baby…you know I used to be able to fly but I can't fly no more, baby. But baby, you...? You too fat to fly."
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Drunk with Power
Citations sur l'art et la science
Avec
Moi non plus, Monsieur.
Critique musicale, Au concert, 1903
Sur l'arrivée de trois députés de Saint-Domingue (Blanc-Dufay, Métis-Mills, Noir-Belley) emprisonnés après dénonciation,15 pluviôse an II-3 février 1794.
Discours
“Debré est nul. Il voulait donner son corps à la Science, mais la Science a pas voulu.”
Music-hall, Votez nul
Arma graui numero uiolentaque bella parabam
Edere, materia conueniente modis.
Par erat inferior uersus ; risisse Cupido
Dicitur atque unum surripuisse pedem.
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Début du premier poème du premier livre. Catulle y justifie son emploi du distique élégiaque (type de vers faisant alterner un hexamètre dactylique et un pentamètre iambique plus court, par distinction avec l'épopée qui utilisait uniquement l' Hexamètre dactylique ), en se mettant en scène victime d'une farce de Cupidon.
Les Amours
J. M. Coetzee, Imre Kertész
Another thing that struck me was the great influence of the Negro, a psychological influence naturally, not due to the mixing of blood. The emotional way an American expresses himself, especially the way he laughs, can best be studied in the illustrated supplements of the American papers; the inimitable Teddy Roosevelt laugh is found in its primordial form in the American Negro. The peculiar walk with loose joints, or the swinging of the hips so frequently observed in Americans, also comes from the Negro. American music draws its main inspiration from the Negro, and so does the dance. […] The vivacity of the average American, which shows itself not only at baseball games but quite particularly in his extraordinary love of talking - the ceaseless gabble of American papers is an eloquent example of this - is scarcely to be derived from his Germanic forefathers, but is far more like the chattering of a Negro village. […] Thus the American presents a strange picture: a European with Negro behaviour and an Indian soul.
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I know I'm not the best singer and I know I'm not the best dancer, but I'm not interested in that. I'm interested in pushing people's buttons, in being provocative and in being political.
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Propos tenus dans le documentaire In Bed with Madonna d' Alek Keshishian sorti en 1991.
Dialogues de films
Les ailes brisées (Al-Ajniha al-Mutakassira, 1912)
Mémoires, 1675-1677