15 Martyn Parker Quotes

Martyn Parker quotes

1. Ye gentlemen of England That live at home at ease, Ah! little do you think upon The dangers of the seas.

2. When the stormy winds do blow.

3. In ancient times all things were cheape 'Tis good to look before you leape When come is ripe 'tis time to reape.

1. It's always hard for me to find a therapist who is a black woman or even a woman of color. It's something that we've always been told is not for us. It's top down.

2. I liked the idea of using this mega-star [Beyoncé ] to talk about all those things on the tiny scale of my life.

3. I think that we need to make it our goal to define freedom for ourselves.

4. The book [There are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé?] is quite complex, and I was worried that it would be marketed as one-sided or flat, and I knew that Mickalene's [Tomas] work would be able to encompass all the many states of being that are in the book.

5. We kind of have to rewrite our own stories and our own ways of being free.

6. There was something about Beyoncé that felt like a vessel, I guess, that I could kind of impose all of these feelings and thoughts onto. I was drawn to a little bit of a dichotomy between the glamour and celebrity and the very deep and complex legacy of black women, and what that means in terms of performance.

7. Where I would usually backspace, I stop and say, "You know what? This is important, that I say how I feel and don't sugarcoat it, and don't avoid it."

8. I've been thinking a lot about folks denying what has happened in history, or just not acknowledging it.

9. I spent a lot of time trying to layer upon layer upon layer as I wrote. I think that's often the fear of a writer, that little nuances won't get picked up.

10. Love makes you smart and strong. Smart enough to know there is nothing else that matters. Strong enough to know that nothing else can weaken you. When you're in love, you're at peace, you're whole, and always safe. I know I made you feel at peace.

11. After a while, being so honest and so vulnerable on the page ends up affecting my own kind of self possession in the world, because I am not afraid of myself and my own thoughts. I think so much of being a woman, of being a social being, of being polite, is quieting those thoughts. There's so much we try not to say as we go through the day. There's a lot of tempering and self-editing. It is a relief to make writing that space where I don't need to do that.

12. I don't claim to say, "All black women are like me," because they're not.