"There was a time, right up until the end of the Second World War and beyond, when white people in Europe thought that they basically owned the world and that everybody else was a sort of servant, or a curiosity, or whatever. And that informed 99 percent of the photographic practice that was done. Without being able to address that, I felt I would have failed in my attempt to explain what the urge to document is."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Stuart Franklin

#War Quotes #People Quotes #Curiosity Quotes

“Dissonance between family and school, therefore, is not only inevitable in a changing society; it also helps to make children moremalleable and responsive to a changing world. By the same token, one could say that absolute homogeneity between family and school would reflect a static, authoritarian society and discourage creative, adaptive development in children.”

Source : Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot (1978). “Worlds apart: relationships between families and schools”, Basic Books (AZ)
“All of us alive today are or can be its prey, most of all the person who believes he is creating works of art when he is in fact creating mere kitsch objects.”
“You don't notice the referee during the game unless he makes a bad call.”

Source : Interview with John Hawkins, rightwingnews.com. March 6, 2012.
“I think that he [Michael Jackson] did derive an ultimate sense of joy and satisfaction in what others enjoyed from him that was denied to himself. There's no question that the transcendent art that he created was a means, an instrument, a vehicle for others to experience what he didn't.”
“Itâ€™s not about what you said. Itâ€™s not about what you did. Itâ€™s not about what you love. Itâ€™s about them feeling bad about themselves.”
“Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.”

Source : "Eddie Van Halen Donates 75 Guitars To Los Angeles Schools" by Anna Almendrala, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 12, 2012.
“My mum and I do cardio kickboxing classes together.”
“Sharing truth is not the kind of gift that comes in wrapping paper - ripped open once and, there, you're done. No, this is a gift that must be unfolded.”

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