This Week…

“I never thought of losing, but now that it’s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.”
–Muhammad Ali

“I’ve done movies for certain reasons; I did ‘Anaconda’ because the black man lives. Simple. The black man isn’t dead in the first three pages, like Jurassic Park. It’s like, ‘The black man kills the snake with a Latino girl? Damn! I got to do this.'”
–Ice Cube

“I don’t think about art while I work. I try to think about life.”
–Jean-Michel Basquiat

“If you haven’t forgiven yourself for something, how can you forgive others?”
–Dolores Huerta

“When two men are fighting and the wife of one of them intervenes to drag her husband clear of his opponent, if she puts out her hand and catches hold of the man by his privates, you must cut off her hand and show her no mercy.”
–Deut. 25:11

“They promised us Game of Thrones and they gave us Game of the Folding Chairs”
–A colleague discussing a local drama on South African TV

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.”
–Aristotle

“Every convention will outlive its validity.”
–Njabulo S. Ndebele

“The habit of looking at the spectacle has forced us to gloss over the nooks and crannies.”
–Njabulo S. Ndebele

“I went so numb on Christmas day
I couldn’t feel my hands or feet.”
–Joni Mitchell, Face Life