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Forward through the morass of repressed power-seeing bodies as the all-powerful Black Male, active in a city of monuments essentialized in the Washington monument ; unyielding and invulnerable                          

Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object, 1949-1979  Paul Schimmel  in Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object, 1949-1979, p264 

i love the above quote and find myself coming back to it again and again. It is in reference to the 60's/70's body based performance work done my Sherman Flemming. specifically in his creation of the performance persona Rod Force. 

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