"White performances were always dull in comparison to the astonishing expressiveness of Black dancers. Behind the white person's inarticulate body were centuries of condemnation of dancing on religious grounds."

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Source : Jamake Highwater (1992). “Dance: Rituals of Experience”, p.61, Oxford University Press, USA

Jamake Highwater

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“I refer to jet lag as 'jet-psychosis - there's an old saying that the spirit cannot move faster than a camel.”
“I've always thought it was about finding the right person. But it's about choosing the right person, isn't it?”
“Fifty years ago, the way that we consumed food was revolutionized. We began eating processed foods, and it seemed amazing. And then we woke up many decades later, and we realized that food was engineered to make us fat. And I think that such companies as Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple are doing the same thing with the stuff that we ingest through our brains. They're attempting to addict us, and they're addicting us on the basis of data.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“I think it's OK to be confident in yourself.”
“I do not outline. There are writers I know and count as my friends who certainly do it the other way, but for me, part of the adventure is not knowing how it's going to turn out.”

Source : "Maynard turns eye to sisterhood". Interview with John Wilkens, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. August 25, 2013.
“Who knows but we may count among our intellectual chickens Like them an Earl of Thackeray and p'raps a Duke of Dickens”
“For years, I never really pondered how I came to be a writer from where I came from.”
“Serviceis love in action, love "made flesh"; service is the body, the incarnation of love. Love is the impetus, service the act, and creativity the result with many by-products.”

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