OBLIVION, n. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their betters without envy. A dormitory without an alarm clock.
I remember being in a history lesson and saying to my teacher, 'How come you never talk about black scientists and inventors and pioneers?' And she looked at me and said, 'Because there aren't any.'
Pioneers will always get the stones, when everyone later gets the accolades.
Do not expect to be acknowledged for what you are, much less for what you would be; since no one can well measure a great man but upon the bier.
To keep the ball rolling I asked Marlow if this Powell was remarkable in any way. “He was not exactly remarkable,” Marlow answered with his usual nonchalance. “In a general way it’s very difficult to become remarkable. People won’t take sufficient notice of one, don’t you know.”
Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.
Nobody's going to write a book about me, because nobody's going to find anything worth writing a book about.
There is a layer of Armaan's voice in the hook line of 'Kar gayi chull' and it was mainly his voice there, but he wasn't credited in the track.
Be grateful as your deeds become less and less associated with your name, as your feet ever more lightly tread the earth.
In 2011, I contributed an essay to Tin House, 'The Dark Side of Dinner Dishes, Laundry, and Child Care,' talking about women writers I felt had fallen off the map.
In so many instances, there has been an attempt to rewrite history. And many times, on photographs, Martin and I were marching together, hand in hand; they cropped the photographs and left me out.
What I'm concerned with is what I would call the missing history - the invisible imprint of our stay on Earth and in time.
I became obsessed with all these women who die never feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives.
I started really noticing, more and more, how men will plagiarize and take credit for women's work... I've noticed that it just happens a lot.
There's no free ride. Someone always pays and if you don't know who that someone is, it's probably you.
It's quite frustrating taking a back seat in films.
We are surrounded every day by people who do thankless but important work.
There are a lot of women who feel that they have done all the work in their relationship only for someone else to step in and take the love and credit for it.
All businesses and jobs depend on a vast number of people, often unnoticed and unthanked, without which nothing really gets done. They are all human and deserve respect and gratitude.
There are a lot of dedicated people out there that don't get the recognition that we get, but they're as important as the people that are sitting in the vehicle.
To be used in a part without depth is a frustrating feeling, when you know you have something to give.
I have a bee in my bonnet as to how few black historical figures one sees on film; incredible stories, stories from which we are living the legacy and which just don't get made.
If celebs try to do something good, people think it is a publicity stunt and if they do without showing it, they don't get credit.
WCW wasn't what I thought it should be. I thought it could be better. I would make suggestions, but nobody would want to hear them. They think you want their job. Please. It would be easier doing their job because they're used to doing nothing.
There are many good ideas out there that never get an audience.
