Steve McQueen // "When I believe in something, I fight like hell for it."
Jay Z // "We were kids without fathers...so we found our fathers...on the streets and in history. We got to pick and choose the ancestors who would inspire the world we were going to make for ourselves."
Salvador Dali // "There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction."
Malala Yousafzai // "They cannot stop me."
Bob Dylan // "It's a common thing to change your name...Many people do it...Names are labels so we can refer to one another. But deep inside we don't have a name."
Buckminster Fuller // "There is more recognition now that things are changing...but not because there is a political move to do it. It is simply a result of the information being there. Our survival won't depend on political or economic systems. It's going to depend on the courage of the individual to speak the truth, and to speak it lovingly and not destructively...and not to go along with the crowd, yet not making others seem ignorant. After a while, if enough human beings are doing it, then everybody will start going in the right direction."
Andy Warhol // “What’s great about this country is America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching tv and see Coca-Cola, and you know that the president drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think...you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good."
Leonardo da Vinci // "Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else."
Mikhail Baryshnikov // “When a dancer comes on stage, he is not just a blank slate...Behind him he has all the decisions he has made in life...You are looking at the person he is, the person who, at this point, he cannot help but be... Exceptional dancers, in my experience, are also exceptional people...people with an attitude toward life, a kind of quest...They know who they are and they show this to you, willingly."
Billie Holiday // "If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all."
Fred Astaire // "Do it big, do it right, and do it with style."
David Wojnarowicz // "Destination means death to me. If I could figure out a way to remain forever in transition, in the disconnected and unfamiliar, I could remain in a state of perpetual freedom."