"I spent a great deal of my life being ignored. I was always very happy that way. Being ignored is a great privilege. That is how I think I learned to see what others do not see and to react to situations differently. I simply looked at the world, not really prepared for anything."

-- Saul Leiter

#Thinking Quotes #Being Ignored Quotes #Way Quotes

“I don't think there are any pure Africans of the African Americans, but the African part of our history was pretty much taken away from us during slavery, so the 60s gave us a chance, because of the civil rights movement, to kind of re-examine and make some sort of formal connection to our African-ness.”
“I know for a fact that Heaven and Hell are here on Earth.”
“Human beings who leave behind them no great achievements, but only a series of small kindnesses, have not had wasted lives”
“But now in this day and age, people are more prone to go out to try new things to enhance their performance on the field - to enhance their physical appearance.”
“Human beings absolutely follow through on who they believe they are”
“Building weapons that we don't need, don't work, and aren't necessary, and have no mission Â— that's not bad politics, that's robbery.”
“Even when I detach, I care. You can be separate from a thing and still care about it. If I wanted to detach completely, I would move my body away. I would stop the conversation midsentence. I would leave the bed. Instead, I hover over it for a second. I glance off in another direction. But I always glance back at you.”
“I discovered early on that some performers live their life in order to act, so all their relationships are simply an experience that they can feed back into their work. Which I find vampiric.”

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