"The South is about the abundance, beauty, and richness of Southern culture, but also its dark underside. The history of Southern food reflects the history of slavery, of poverty, of the negotiation of power."

-- Marcie Cohen Ferris

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“Even the best weeks start with monday”
“There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.”
“I learned that I suffered from bipolar II disorder, a less serious variant of bipolar I, which was once known as manic depression. The information was naturally frightening; up to 1 in 5 people with bipolar disorder will commit suicide, and rates may even be higher for those suffering from bipolar II.”
“Robert Creeley has forged a signature style in American poetry, an idiosyncratic, highly elliptical, syntactical compression by which the character of his mindâ€™s concentrated and stumbling proposals might be expressed â€¦ Reading his poems, we experience the gnash of arriving through feeling at thought and word.”
“Fancy can save or kill; it hath clos'd up Wounds when the balsam could not, and without The aid of salves:--to think hath been a cure. For witchcraft then, that's all done by the force Of mere imagination.”
“Whoever doesn't live in poetry cannot survive here on earth.”

Source : Halldór Laxness (2005). “Under the Glacier”, Vintage Books
“Associate with those who help you believe in yourself.”
“The arts can open the door to the imagination, pushing the envelope of how peace can be created. It takes courage to take this kind of risk, and courage is what we all need to create a better world.”

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