"The easy bit is picking up a camera and pointing and shooting. But then you have to decide what it is youâ€™re trying to say and express."

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“I practice my saxophone three hours a day. I'm not saying I'm particularly special, but if you do something three hours a day for forty years, you get pretty good at it.”
“The histories of the poor and the powerless are as important as those of their conquerors, their colonizers, their kings and queens.”

Source : Johnnetta B. Cole (2011). “Conversations: Straight Talk with America's Sister President”, p.161, Anchor
“Human life is too difficult for people.”
“[On her writing agenda:] Make the familiar exotic; the exotic familiar.”
“Be hated. One does not have to be evil to be hated. In fact, itâ€™s often the case that one is hated precisely because one is trying to do right by oneâ€™s own convictions. It is far too easy to be liked, one merely has to be accommodating and hold no strong convictions. Then one will gravitate towards the centre and settle into the average. That cannot be your role. There are a great many bad people in the world, and if you are not offending them, you must be bad yourself.”
“I wasn't satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement.”
“Buy low and sell high. It's pretty simple. The problem is knowing what's low and what's high.”
“You know, you've got fans and 99.9 percent of them are great-and .1 percent are jerks.”

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