"The more we think we're not affected by media - stereotypes, advertising - the more potential those forms of media have."

-- Jennifer Pozner

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“I collected pictures and I drew pictures and I looked at the pictures by myself. And because no one else ever saw them, the pictures were perfect and true. They were alive.”

Source : Helen Oyeyemi (2010). “White is for Witching”, p.70, Pan Macmillan
“It is a commonplace by now to say that the urban school systems of America contain a higher percentage of Negro children each year.”
“You discover how confounding the world is when you try to draw it. You look at a car, and you try to see its car-ness, and youâ€™re like an immigrant to your own world. You donâ€™t have to travel to encounter weirdness. You wake up to it.”
“My favorite color is purple. I have a huge velvet purple comforter on my bed.”
“A religion true to its nature must also be concerned about man's social conditions....A ny religion that professes to be concerned with the souls of men and is not concerned with the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them, and the social conditions that cripple them is a dry-as-dust religion.”
“Art is animated by invisible forces that rule the universe.”
“I think perception is important.”
“There are powers that can counterfeit almost everything in the Christian life.”

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