"As artists, we do the work that we do. Receiving an award or not receiving an award in no way diminishes one's talent or value."

-- Phylicia Rashad

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“There is no one who can stop you; you find a mic, a crowd, a set of ears, and nowadays, a camera and YouTube, and you recite your poem. You have your say. I don't want to over-romanticize it: of course, any time an art form ascends, especially when competition is involved, there will be gatekeeping, chauvinism, and other unfortunate dynamics. But the beauty of spoken word and performance poetry is, by and large, its ability to reach people in the moment - right there, right then.”
“As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes.”
“When I was a kid, we always had big gardens, acres of stuff we grew out in the yard.”
“I'm not into division. I'm into coordination, discipline and tradition.”
“Reality television was in some ways being unimaginative at that time. We were excited about the possibilities of the form, to use real people as your stars, to not be about winning, to be about going on complicated, challenging, funny, dramatic journeys.”
“The point is, life has to be endured, and lived. But how to live it is the problem.”

Source : DAPHNE DU MAURIER (1952). “MY COUSIN RACHEL”
“Great men are almost always bad men.”
“Do not keep the slanderer away, treat him with affection and honor: Body and soul, he scours all clean, babbling about this and that.”

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