Categorization Quotes

(suburbia) "I think the atmosphere that I grew up in, yes, there was a subtext of normalcy. I don`t even know what the word means, but it`s stuck in my brain. It`s weird. I don`t know if it`s specifically American, or American in the time I grew up, but there`s a very strong sense of categorization and conformity. I remember being forced to go to Sunday school for a number of years, even though my parents were not religious. No one was really religious; it was just the framework. There was no passion for it. No passion for anything. Just a quiet, kind of floaty, kind of semi-oppressive, blank palette that you`re living in."

You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It`s one of the great things poetry does.

I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way.