"People think a big camera and big lighting will make art, and I want to break that rule. If you have a great concept, it can be art."

-- Nikki S. Lee

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“I used to spend a lotta time worryin that I was different from other people, even from other homeless folks. Then, after I met Miss Debbie and Mr. Ron, I worried that I was so different from them that we wadn't ever gon' have no kind a' future. But I found out everybody's different - the same kind of different as me. We're all just regular folks walkin down the road God done set in front of us. The truth about it is, whether we is rich or poor or somethin in between, this earth ain't no final restin place. So in a way, we is all homeless - just workin our way toward home.”

Source : Ron Hall, Denver Moore (2008). “Same Kind of Different As Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together”, p.235, Thomas Nelson Inc
“That day she put our heads together, Fate had her imagination about her, Your head so much concerned with outer, Mine with inner, weather.”
“To change the world, we must first change the way the babies are being born,”
“Fear is the opportunity for courage, not proof of cowardice.”
“In Africa, you know, if you're poor, at least you can go to the forest and share some mangoes with the gorillas and monkey.”
“I've told you a million times, I don't exaggerate.”

Source : "Stelling on Saturday: nobody does it better" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. March 8, 2006.
“Whether or not our system of Indian management has been a success during the past ten, fifty, or hundred years is almost answered in the asking.”

Source : Nelson A. Miles (1992). “Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles, Embracing a Brief View of the Civil War, Or, From New England to the Golden Gate and the Story of His Indian Campaigns with Comments on the Exploration, Development, and Progress of Our Great Western Empire”, p.345, U of Nebraska Press
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