Now & Later (2011)

Shari Solanis: Angela

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• Bill : You know, when I was a teenager, we used to say, "Life's a bitch and then you die." I guess I'm beginning to understand what it means.

  Angela : Well, we say the same thing, but at the end we had it, so fuck the bitch.

• Angela : You know, research shows that a lack of sexual pleasure leads to frustration, bitterness, anger, violence.

• Angela : If possessions were important in life, rich people would be happy.

• Angela : You continue to kill yourself for later, for the future. Rather than enjoying what you had at the time, you risked everything for the future

• Angela : Since we're born without that if God put us here it was because He had a purpose for us a destiny that we were supposed to figure out. Can you see how crazy it is to think that we have a purpose in life?

• Angela : We are here by chance, by accident. Your father met your mother, fucked her, and you were born. And you can think of two million good reasons for you father to have met another girl and then you wouldn't even be here.

• Angela : What if for once you let things happen without trying to control them?

• Angela : Huevones... It means "big balls, no guts.

• Angela : To see that even in your desperate situation having a good time now is better than waiting.

• Angela : What's here now will always be yours.

• Angela : You know, for centuries, women have been seducing men through food, doing all sorts of crazy stuff. For example, women used to make bread and sit on the dough naked and infuse the dough with their juices.

• Angela : In short we had a dictator for two decades financed and supported by the U.S. The Sandinistas fought them for years, and little by little the people joined them and created a popular revolution, deposing the dictator. And what happened? And it became a new country with free health care, free schools literacy campaign in the country. But. Unfortunately, the Sandinistas are what your country calls socialists. The Sandinistas didn't want their money and resources to go to U.S. corporations, they wanted it to go to their people. So, your actor President, Reagan ordered the CIA to put together an army, called the contras to overthrow our government and this created a civil war, that raged on. Your CIA got entangled in its mess and realized that it would need more money to continue, but it was a secret war, that the American Congress did not want to finance. So, the CIA decided to sell weapons to Iran which was forbidden by your Congress and by international law. And when your CIA needed more money, they decided to sell drugs. Cocaine, to be precise, in your country to finance the Contras.

• Angela : People here do not know what is going on in their own country. You are educated by Walt Disney, and Fox News, and Star Wars. You live in a bubble. Your country has been responsible for the removal or assassination of dozens of leaders around the world. You want names? Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of Congo. Salvador Allende, President of Chile. Mossadeq, Prime Minister of Iran. All democratically elected, all dead because of the CIA organized coup. Your country has initiated massacres in Indonesia, Guatemala, Iran.