Margo Jefferson Quotes

The thing we call critics are not really reviewers, they are not really critics. They don't have the discipline to write what we would term as critique - it's really just reviewers. They have a common man kind of taste. If you watch them overall, they are not different from the box-office. That's my view.

There arose a belief in style - and in banality. Banality encompassed politics, too, because it was a common belief that politics were not worthy of art.

My son was about five or six months old, and he was ill, and I was sent to New York to interview three people back to back. I got home, and I saw my baby. He had been very ill, and he was on three kinds of antibiotics. I'd been away for eight days. I looked at him and thought, 'What am I doing? I'm a terrible mother and a terrible journalist.'

In 2013, the week before I dropped 'Crenshaw,' 'Complex' wrote an article that said that Nipsey Hussle is one of the top 25 underperforming artists. I was so offended that I responded with my own opinion about these journalists - their point of view is not validated in our culture.

What we don't include is as important as what we do include.

Rash oaths, whether kept or broken, frequently produce guilt.

I've always taken my hangovers as consequence, not as a punishment.

I gave you life. You’re wasting it.

Letting everyone down would be my greatest unhappiness.

I accept full responsibility for what I wrote and apologize to everyone who was offended.

Some of our children are our justifications and some are but our regrets

I have one regret: I wish I was a better father.

I should have told you from the start. I will let you down.

Pride is not a word or sentiment I can ascribe to anything I have done or do. As far as regret, it is a luxury I can not afford. Anything I did, that was bad or wrong or regretful, I stand accused, I am guilty and I'm ready to serve my time.

I was angry and frightened, and I was scared. I knew what I had done. The whole night is my fault. None of this would have happened if I didn’t drink.

I will be asking for forgiveness, but hopefully I won't have to be asking for much forgiveness.

I know it's my fault I should've gave more.

... I didn't know whether to feel angry at her for making me part of her suicide or just to feel angry at myself for letting her go.

Each one of them suffering from the failures of their day, with strings of guilt they tried hard to guide us.

The silence between us was so profound I thought part of it must be my fault.

It is a little theory of mine that has much exercised my mind lately, that most of the problems of this silly and delightful world derive from our apologising for those things which we ought not to apologise for, and failing to apologise for those things for which apology is necessary.

Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one's own actions or lack of action.

And we could all sit around and wonder and feel bad about each other and blame a lot of people for what they did or didn’t do or what they didn’t know. I don’t know. I guess there would always be someone to blame.

All this has been my fault.

I am a person who always feels like I am not doing the right thing because there's always so many things that need to get done.