"I was born in St. Louis and lived in Pittsburgh for a bit, before my family moved to Nigeria, where they're from. We lived there for three or four years and came back to the States when I was about ten. I realised that I'd gone from place to place not fitting in. The thing that helped me fit in when moving around and not having a ton of friends was that I could make art. That was the through-line."

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Source : Source: thequietus.com

Babatunde Adebimpe

#Art Quotes #Moving Quotes #Years Quotes

“You haven't broken me Taker, you haven't broken me, I'm still standing.”
“You read the past in some old faces.”
“When I wake up," he said, "remind me that I'm going to marry her.”
“I want people to understand and recognize that when it comes to dating, you're not as crazy as you think you are. Everyone needs love. We need it like air or water. We just don't know how to get it.”
“If thou expect death as a friend, prepare to entertain it; if thou expect death as an enemy, prepare to overcome it; death has no advantage, but when it comes a stranger.”
“Where you succeed will never matter so much as where you fail.”

Source : Karen Joy Fowler (2014). “We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves”, p.288, Serpent's Tail
“Ideas in secret die. They need light and air or they starve to death.”
“I never had a movie that I wanted to do turned down in my whole life. I always write the script first so it speaks for itself.”

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