"History is made and preserved by and for particular classes of people. A camera in some hands can preserve an alternate history."

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Source : David Wojnarowicz (1994). “David Wojnarowicz: brush fires in the social landscape”

David Wojnarowicz

#Hands Quotes #Class Quotes #People Quotes

“I've met others [people] who simply responded to me, "You're Kehinde Wiley. I know your work. I saw it at the Brooklyn Museum [Brooklyn, NY] And I'd be honored to be in your work."”
“There is divine beauty in learning... To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps.”
“Life is so extraordinary. Wonderful surprises are just around the most unexpected corners.”

Source : Rosamunde Pilcher (2011). “Winter Solstice”, p.275, Macmillan
“My motive has always been just to be who I am, and play what I love- if that doesn't get me anywhere then at least it wasn't because I tried to be something I'm not.”

Source : Source: innerearmedia.wordpress.com
“Loneliness is a long, unbearable pain....There was never a place for me in the scheme of things....I had become a living fantasy on a theme in dark, endless dirges....I made another world, and real men would enter it and they would never really get hurt at all in the vivid, unreal laws of the dream. I caused dreams which caused death. This is my crime.”
“I'm addicted to something at all times. Like, it's always music, but maybe sometimes it's a pair of pants or something else. That's just how my personality works.”
“Becoming an artist cannot be taught. A degree and diligence is not a guarantee that one can become an 'artist.”
“We have an army far better adapted to attack than to defend. Let us fight at advantage before we are forced to fight at disadvantage.”

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