Jazzmin Wilson

“TYRONE

[Stares at him -- impressed.]
Yes, there's the makings of a poet in you all right.

[Then protesting uneasily]
But that's morbid craziness about not being wanted and loving death.

EDMUND

[Sardonically]

The makings of a poet. No, I'm afraid I'm like the guy who is always panhandling for a smoke. He hasn't even got the makings. He's got only the habit. I couldn't touch what I tried to tell you just now. I just stammered. That's the best I'll ever do, I mean, if I live. Well, it will be faithful realism, at least. Stammering is the native eloquence of us fog people.”
― Eugene O'Neill, Long Day’s Journey into Night

“That’s what imperialism is all about, shoving your language, religion, culture, and race down others’ throats and telling them that they’re beneath you – and it’s not unique to the West either.”
― M.B. Wilmot