Trueorigin Quotes & Sayings

I make work that is many things at once: poems that are prose, that are pictures, that are poem and picture. Actions that are images using poems that are umbrellas. My best work is both/and, in-between, occupying several dimensions simultaneously.
(from my Poetics Statement in Troubling the Line) — Jay Besemer

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain. — Epictetus

I'd rather be a Cyborg than a Goddess — Donna J. Haraway

Intelligence entails a strong mind, but genius entails a heart of a lion in tune with a strong mind. — Criss Jami

If you're sensitive, you will have a hard time with me. — Bill Parcells

I keep my chin tucked in, eyes on the ground, the same stance I have when I pass by the guys from my neighborhood who laugh and call me Urkel because I wear a big backpack and don't hang out on the street all night smoking Kool XLs--and by the way, we need a new black nerd archetype; also, when are these wannabe gangstas watching reruns of Family Matters? — Una LaMarche

But how to define the eroticism of a man (or an era) that sees female seductive power as centered in the middle of the body, in the navel? — Milan Kundera

I'd like to get the word out there, the word has to be spread. — Chita Rivera

If we want the world to be a better place to live, we have to treat it as one unit. If we want economic growth to be pervasive, we have to make people its partners. If we want the process of development to be sustainable, we have to work with the environment. — Narendra Modi