"If I choose this platform [The Black Arts Movement] and God validates this platform, I feel like we have to use the hyper-reality to get people closer to [actual] reality. Right now is so special because it's the information age and people just want to be aware and there's no better way of doing that than through art."

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Source : Source: www.ebony.com

Kofi Siriboe

#Art Quotes #Reality Quotes #People Quotes

“I don't want my dad to say, 'My daughter is an actress on a TV show.' I want him to say, 'My daughter cares about people.' I would love to know that I'm a role model in Hollywood.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.”

Source : Frances Wright (1829). “Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789”, p.73
“God brings people into our lives precisely when we need them.”

Source : Leanna Renee Hieber (2011). “Darker Still: A Novel of Magic Most Foul”, p.37, Sourcebooks, Inc.
“If all that you see, do, measure and discover is the will of a deity, then ideas can never be proven wrong, you have no predictive power, and you are at a loss to understand the principles behind most of the fundamental interconnections of nature.”
“The early Church had nothing but the Old Testament. The New Testament lies hidden in the Old; the Old Testament lies open in the New.”
“What will it matter to him if he notices that he is growing old? Has he any reason to envy the young people whom he sees, or wax nostalgic over his own lost youth? What reasons has he to envy a young person? For the possibilities that a young person has, the future which is in store for him? "No, thank you," he will think. "Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, though these things are things that cannot inspire envy."”
“The scrape and snap of Keds on loose alley pebbles seems to catapult their voices high into the moist March air blue above the wires.”
“A new state, if it wants to join the European Union, has to apply to become a member of the European Union like any state.”

Source : "Catalonia warns EU that million-strong march cannot be ignored" by Giles Tremlett, www.theguardian.com. September 13, 2012.

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