"I was really relieved not to have to drag something in front of the camera; I could use a pencil and paper. A regular pencil and typing paper. That appealed to me."

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Source : Joan Simon, William Wegman (2006). “William Wegman: Funney/strange”, p.105, Yale University Press

William Wegman

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“The Gospel is not about going from bad to good, it's about going from dead to alive!”
“The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.”
“When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people.”
“The great mathematician fully, almost ruthlessly, exploits the domain of permissible reasoning and skirts the impermissible. That his recklessness does not lead him into a morass of contradictions is a miracle in itself: certainly it is hard to believe that our reasoning power was brought, by Darwin's process of natural selection, to the perfection which it seems to possess.”
“Dwelling on pain, spending too much time immersed in it, tasting its flavors, fingering its textures--this makes it only more potent.”
“Racism is a system of power and in the absence of power you cannot be considered a racist.”

Source : "We Are At War". Speech at Cheyney State University, www.blackpast.org. 1994.
“Housetops were covered with 'gazers'; all wharves that offered a view were jammed with people ... As British officers happily reminded one another, it was the largest fleet ever seen in American waters. In fact it was the largest expeditionary force of the 18th century, the largest, most powerful force ever sent forth by Britain or any other nation.”
“Captain Carpenter rose up in his prime Put on his pistols and went riding out But had got wellnigh nowhere at that time Till he fell in with ladies in a rout.”

Source : Donald Davidson, William Yandell Elliott, Merrill Moore, John Crowe Ransom, Robert Penn Warren (1928). “Fugitives: an anthology of verse”

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