Gianni Versace Quotes

Every time I go to Africa, I feel like I hit true north. There is a depth of feeling that I have for the continent, in the richness of the people, the suffering, but also the transcendent joy that is there - it's like nowhere else on the planet.

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.

Culture is the air we breathe all around us.

I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted.

A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.

Browning's tragedies are tragedies without villains.

What has happened in America over 400 years has never been cleaned up. We just put on some new clothes in the midst of the old filth.

The Negro is essentially the child of the moment and his memory, both tribal and individual, is very short

What kind of country are we that our history is so tragic?

I always thought 'Of Mice and Men' was such a perfect book because there's nothing not to understand, but it's still really clever and moving and complicated, but everybody understands the complication.

These are human issues. These are human stories. I think that's why 'Fences' has been able to resonate and been able to hit so many people over the years because it is just that. You can't run away from the racial specifics of it, but that's just a part of it.

Our long memories hold the stories of what our people accomplished, but they also hold the prejudices, the injustices, the harm that we've received from others.

The theatre is a tragic place, full of endings and partings and heartbreak.

I happen to like things that are funny and dramatic at the same time. I don't see the difference.

I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.

I've always thought that comedy was just another dramatic expression.

So many other things for us to see, Things to be, Our history so full of tragedy and misery.

Jacian Obregon. It sounds like a melody. Or a tragedy.

The bondage of the Negro brought captive from Africa is one of the greatest dramas in history, and the writer who merely sees in that ordeal something to approve or condemn fails to understand the evolution of the human race.

What is Africa to me: Copper sun or scarlet sea, Jungle star or jungle track, Strong bronzed men, or regal black Women from whose loins I sprang When the birds of Eden sang?

[My father] was very impressed when he saw "Death of a Salesman," I must say. He recognized himself to some extent.

But in Hiroshima, some people were wiped clean away, leaving only a wristwatch or a diary page. So no matter that I have inhibitions to fill all my pockets, I keep trying, hoping that one day I'll write a poem I can be proud to let sit in a museum exhibit as the only proof I existed.

I feel like so much of what happened in the Delta over the decades since slavery was abolished seems much closer in the Delta, and maybe that's because sharecropping was a fairly recent phenomena. I feel like the past is closer and it bears even more heavily on the present there than it does in the rest of the state.

You will not leave the theater with nothing to talk about. For me, comedy and tragedy when you get them both in one evening, that's the most satisfying.