Zitat des Tages über Politischer Akt / Political Act:
What I do know is that writing is the thing I am best at, and I don't have the stomach, the ability, the strength or the courage to enter the political arena. And I think writing can be a political act, if only to let those people accountable know they are being watched. Literature can be a conscience.
Being born, especially being born a person of color, is a political act in itself.
Lesbian humor isn't trying to sell anything, it doesn't have to sell out. Coming out as a lesbian onstage is still a very political act; if it weren't, more women would do it.
I feel that man-hating is an honorable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them.
I define my work as a feminist act and a political act because I'm black and a woman. You don't necessarily have to claim that, but the act of making art itself is a political and feminist act when you're a woman.
I cannot imagine a context that would some day, in some manner, make the monstrous crime of September 11 an understandable or comprehensible political act.
War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.
Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.
Architecture is definitely a political act.
Art is inherently political. Even trying to make a film that has nothing to do with politics is, in and of itself, a political act.