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Courtney A. Kemp Quotes

I am not going to say that only people of color can write people of color, because that means only white people can write white people, and that's not OK.

Courtney A. Kemp

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: May 4, 1977

Topics

I Am People Color White Say Write

I wish I could write about shows outside New York. I often feel like the last person to know anything, because I almost never get to leave town, and when I do, I tend to go for three days max. Seeing between 30 and 40 shows a week in 100 or so galleries and museums takes up nearly all my time.

Jerry Saltz

Time New York Feel Wish Week Seeing

Verbally, I'm quite fast on my feet. I could embarrass or anger most people if I wanted to.

Andrew Marr

Anger People Feet Fast Most Quite

The first set of lyrics for the first songs I ever wrote, which are the ones on 'Pretty Hate Machine,' came from private journal entries that I realized I was writing in lyric form.

Trent Reznor

Hate Writing Journal First Pretty

I do have a bit of a garden, and I'd love a hovercraft to get around it - one of the big four-seater ones with the fan on the back.

Tom Felton

Love Back Garden Big Get Fan

If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism.

Douglas Rushkoff

End Century Twentieth Century Defined

Jack Lemmon always said you can't learn how to act without doing theatre, and I agree with that. Because anyone can do a character for a take, but can you do one for 40 minutes at a time?

Chris Doubek

Character Time Theatre Learn Doing

One of the Robinson brothers from the Black Crowes turned me on to Nick Drake.

Chris Cornell

Me Black Brothers Turned Robinson

I think one of the things about listening is that it's always at its most powerful when it's present, when it's right here, when it's right now. And that's a lesson about improv that I think just made me a much more social person.

Chris Gethard

Me Listening Think Present Powerful

I try to take care of myself as much as possible.

Bobby Lashley

Myself Care Take Care Possible Try

One may have broad or narrow talents, but only education renders them useful. Schools set up to train people will develop the intelligence of those who have it and end the stupidity of those who do not, providing a specialty to those who have narrow talent and broad knowledge to those with all-around ability.

Sun Yat-sen

Education Knowledge Intelligence End

The automotive X Prize, to a great degree, is focused on addressing petroleum usage and carbon emissions.

Peter Diamandis

Great Focused Degree Prize Petroleum

In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state.

Peter L. Berger

Power Economy Individual Market Some