"The rich and complex history of South Carolina is the history of the African diaspora, and in many ways, I felt acutely the sense of this collective memory of migration, suffering and transformation while living in South Carolina."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Kwame Dawes

#Memories Quotes #Collective Memory Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“I have heard about the civilized, the marriages run on talk, elegant and honest, rational. But and I are savages.”
“Donald Trump announced today he is running for president of the United States. Traditionally that means six more weeks of comedy.”
“You've got to be happy in your own skin.”

Source : "Jada Pinkett Smith: My Life With Will". Parade Interview, parade.com. October 29, 2008.
“The art world, of all worlds, has room for everyone.”

Source : Source: briansherwin-artcritic.blogspot.com
“I think a proud Southerner is a Southerner who is aware of his or her past, and being proud of one's past does not mean you accept it. It means that you realize that we've come through the fire, and we're headed in another direction.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“Apart from direct mistakes, there is nothing more ruinous than routine play, the aim of which is mechanical development.”
“In magical thought the human body is the 'microcosm' (small representation) of the Earth, which is the 'macrocosm'. The Earth is also the microcosm of the Universe. In other words, we are pictures of the essence of the planet and thusly of the universe. As such, when we change ourselves, we change the Earth and the universe.”

Source : Scott Cunningham (1983). “Earth Power: Techniques of Natural Magic”, p.14, Llewellyn Worldwide
“It does seem that the sea ice is returning to 'average' after the record lows of 2007 and 2008. There has been a definite recovery trend since then, so far from being a progression towards ice free summers it seems that it was a temporary dip. The recent observations do make the 2007 projections that the region would be ice free by 2013 look very unrealistic. Given what is happening only the foolish would look many years into the future and predict ice free summers now.”

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