"Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal."

-- Gustave Courbet

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“Cassie Wright knows, the moment you make yourself available to any man, he starts to take you for granted”
“I love those films where I feel the director's confidence - where he doesn't need to overdo it with the shots and the cuts.”
“I've always equated the writing process with editing, sort of like when I get through editing the movie, that's like my last draft of the screenplay.”
“I think the invitation offered the non-black reader is to join us in this expression of our familiarity and via that joining, come to understand that when black people come together to celebrate and rejoice in black critical thinking, we do so not to exclude or to separate, but to participate more fully in world community. However, we must first be able to dialogue with one another, to give one another subject-to-subject recognition that is an act of resistance that is part of the decolonizing, anti-racist process.”
“One man's vulgarity is another man's lyric.”
“When we look for differences instead of similarities, we create barriers for trust.”
“Sixteen years after 9/11, we still don't even know what to call the enemy, rather than form a comprehensive strategy.”

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“A poem is an invitation to a voyage. As in life, we travel to see fresh sights.”

Source : Charles Simic (2013). “The Monster Loves His Labyrinth”, p.74, Copper Canyon Press

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