Real Jordan Block

Famous quotes containing the words real, jordan and/or block:

    Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honour as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.
    Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)

    We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived.
    —June Jordan (b. 1939)

    The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem.... I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.
    Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968)