"A fantastic model of collaboration: thinking partners who aren't echo chambers."

-- Margaret Heffernan

#Thinking Quotes #Echoes Quotes #Collaboration Quotes

“I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.”
“Choosing an agenda that supports the apparatuses of racial violence always pays better.”

Source : "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.
“When I sent those scripts, that was the lowest point of my life. We'd just had our second son, and when I went to collect them from hospital, I went to the bank to try and get some money to buy some diapers, the screen showed I've got $26 left.”
“After the kids are asleep you â€¦ well, you know. Whatever it is. You slip away for a night.”
“I was appalled at the amount of study necessary in order to qualify in medicine, and gradually my desire was blunted by a keener - and secret - wish to become an actor.”
“Very often the quiet fellow has said all he knows”
“I really enjoy doing charity, for a good cause, itâ€™s like the least I can do, I really enjoy that stuff. I enjoy giving back.”
“I am black. What are you going to do about it?”

Source : Adrian Piper, Maurice Berger, Jean Fisher (1999). “Adrian Piper: a retrospective”, Fine Arts Gallery Umbc

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