I have utmost respect for you but in that moment if I were to get out of your way instead of walking up the stairs to my home I would have no respect for myself. I didn’t know why you couldn’t understand this when I told you. Instead you screamed at me and told me I was rude. And then you said someone of my age should know meaning that you were adding to my crime the fact that I am older than you. What am I to do. How many days have passed and I have no reason to think that your ancestors were stolen from their home in A- frica and because of my not knowing that this is true but thinking that it is possible it makes me certain that respect next time would be for me to step around. Maybe I could say quietly joining you for a moment in your vast and ancient sorrow that was my home
- Eileen Myles
• Anthony Friedkin - Jim and Valerie, Trouper’s Hall, Hollywood, 1970