"I'm what they call a 'non-black person of color': NBPOC. It's easy and seductive and common to mobilize around these identity issues, but often that's done at the expense of considering structural anti-blackness. That puts everything in a slightly different light for me, especially because of where I am and why - where I am in the world of the arts, where I live, in Harlem - and the music that I've been able to make, whom I've been able to make it with, who has nurtured me. It's not just about solidarity. It's actually about debt."

-- Vijay Iyer

#Art Quotes #Seductive Quotes #Identity Quotes

“Jesus, help me to simplify my life by learning what you want me to be and becoming that person.”
“In our family, being powerful means you never, ever apologize for being a woman.”

Source : Georgette Mosbacher (1994). “Feminine Force: Release the Power Within You to Create the Life You Deserve”, Touchstone
“I'm hoping to know and teach a Gospel that is true to Scripture - and the Gospel that I see in the Bible is COSMIC (big enough to redeem all of Creation) and RELATIONAL (getting at the root of the Fall - the loss of our relational capacities).”
“People assume that I came back to Washington because of the Post, but the truth is less romantic. I came back for a job.”
“Proverbs embody the current and practical philosophy of an age or nation.”

Source : William Fleming, Charles Porterfield Krauth (1860). “The Vocabulary of Philosophy, Mental, Moral and Metaphysical: With Quotations and References; for the Use of Students”, p.409
“Do not be silent; there is no limit to the power that may be released through you.”

Source : John Morton (2000). “The Blessings Already Are”, p.86, Mandeville Press
“I like geography best, he said, because your mountains & rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries.”
“In the arts the way in which an idea is rendered, and the manner in which it is expressed, is much more important than the idea itself.”

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