Famous quotes containing the words rock, city and/or box:
“Margaret: Some people have life made for them.
Frank: Thats right, Mrs. Hammond, and some people make it for themselves. Its about time you took that ton of rock off your shoulders.”
—David Storey (b. 1933)
“Not to find ones way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorancenothing more. But to lose oneself in a cityas one loses oneself in a forestthat calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.”
—Walter Benjamin (18921940)
“To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box.... On the box is a label, not of my own choosing.”
—Stephen Carter (b. 1954)
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