"Growing up the way I did, it was tough being one of only a few black people in the town and in school. What my upbringing got me is never feeling completely safe emotionally. Never knowing when something racial was going to pop off based on how I look. So that's something I've carried with me personally and is reflected in my work."

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Gina Prince-Bythewood

#Growing Up Quotes #School Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“If you can't say it to me in front of my kids, don't say it.”
“I'm not a comedian. I don't make things funny if they're not funny. I don't invent funny stuff.”
“There is no place in the kingdom of heaven for a divided heart. It is in the division that love is lost; and to lose My love, My child, is to lose what cannot be regained. For a loving heart is a vessel of light and mercy. It is a receptacle into which I pour My grace. It is untarnished by avarice and indifferent to the call of worldly ambition.”
“Art Exists for the human species. I think that all of the people who love art, those who teach art, and all of you should burn with the obligation to save the world”
“The central attitudes driving the Water Torturer are: You are crazy. You fly off the handle over nothing. I can easily convince other people that you're the one who is messed up. As long as I'm calm, you can't call anything I do abusive, no matter how cruel. I know exactly how to get under your skin.”
“A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.”
“Violent revolutions usually only mean a change of personnel at the top.”

Source : Petra Karin Kelly (1984). “Fighting for Hope”, p.31, South End Press
“I read a lot of poetry. All types of poetry, but mostly Catalan poetry, because I believe poetry is the essence of language. Reading the classics, be they medieval or contemporary, gives me a stylistic energy that I'm very interested in.”

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