Woguy Quotes & Sayings

Yes, being black is a full-time job: sometimes you are invisible, other times you are hyper-visible," he says. "Sometimes you are welcome, other times you are not. The thermostat is always moving and you have to keep adapting to find some comfort level. Richard Pryor used to talk about going to Africa and people there telling him he was white. Even though he was black, he just wasn't black enough. — Paul Beatty

Wine is a story that gives birth to stories, and man, a story-telling animal. — Neel Burton

I'm always "shopping," because I think it's important to know what's out there. — Erin Wasson

God performs miracles, but even for one to walk on water, action is required. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I would describe my style of songwriting as classic. I learned very early on and have stuck to the core principles of song structure regardless of which genre I'm writing in. — Wendy Starland

Men, too, secrete the inhuman. At certain moments of lucidity, the mechanical aspect of their gestures, their meaningless pantomime makes silly everything that surrounds them. A man is talking on the telephone behind a glass partition; you cannot hear him, but you see his incomprehensible dumb show: you wonder why he is alive. This discomfort in the face of man's own inhumanity, this incalculable tumble before the image of what we are, this "nausea," as a writer of today calls it, is also the absurd. — Albert Camus

I perceive and relate to the world through where I grew up; that's part of me. It's what I judge everything else against. — Michael Sheen