| Marta: You wanna know why I came to New York? I came because New York is the center of the world, and that's where I want to be. You know what the pulse of this city is? The pulse of this city kiddo, is me. This city is for the me's of this world. People who want to be in the right in the heart of it. I am the soul of New York. How many Puerto Ricans you know? How many blacks? God, talk about pathetic. Jews, Hispanics, gays, Arabs, street people, all my closets, my best friends. Listen, I don't pass people in the street, I stop, I know them. In this city every son of a bitch I meet is my new best friend. Oh, I go uptown, like to the dentist or something, and I swear, suddenly I want to cry because I think, "Oh God, I'm uptown." And Fourteenth Street. Well I don't know why anybody talks about any place eles, because that is the center of the universe... that is humanity, Fourteenth Street. That's everything. And if you don't like ith there they got eveery subway you can name to take ya where ya like it better. This city- I kiss the ground of it. Someday you know what I want to do? I want to get all dressed up in black - Black dress, black shoes, hat, everything black, and go and sit in some bar at the end of the counter and drink and cry. That is my idea of honest to God sophistication. I mean, that is New York. You know what this city is? Where a person can feel it? It's in a person's ass. If you're really apart of the city, relaxed cool, and in the whole flow of it, your ass is like this. (She makes a large round cirle with her forefinger and thumb) If you're just living here, runnin' around, uptight, not really apart of this city, your ass is like this (She tightens the circle to nothing, making a fist) |
