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I read that you donned a prosthesis for your one-woman show
“Man to Man,” in which you played both husband and wife.
Actually it was a
balled pair of socks, but the idea of it morphing in legend
into a penis prosthetic is fantastic, and we should leave it
right there.
-- Tilda Swinton,
interviewed by Andrew Goldman in the NY
Times Magazine
How can Obama be the
president you want him to be when he’s facing this
Republican Congress?
I’ll put it this way,
brother: You’ve got to be a thermostat rather than a
thermometer. A thermostat shapes the climate of opinion; a
thermometer just reflects it. If you’re just going to
reflect it and run by the polls, then you’re not going to be
a transformative president.
Lincoln
was a thermostat. Johnson and
F.D.R., too.
-- Cornel West, ibid.
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