"Since the 1960s, we have seen the failure of the melting pot ideology. This ideology suggested that different historical, cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds could be subordinated to a larger ideology or social amalgam which is "America." This concept obviously did not work, because paradoxically America encourages a politics of contestation."

-- Edward Said

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“I've had a chance to fly a lot of different airplanes, but it was nothing like the shuttle ride.”
“Off fall the wife, the mother, the lover, the teacher, and the violent artist takes over. I am I alone. I belong to no one but myself. I mate with no one but the spirit. I own no land, have no kin, no friend or enemy. I have no road but this one.”

Source : Sylvia Ashton-Warner (1967). “Myself”, Harvill Secker
“My paintings at their best take that vocabulary and attempt to transpose that into a form that gives respect not only to the history of painting but also to those people who look and sound like me.”
“I encourage people to find and use the power of their voices just as much when I do not agree with those voices as when I do agree with them.”
“I make no apologies for being a huge fan of radio songs.”
“India's place in the sun would come from the partnership between wisdom of its rural people and skill of its professionals”
“The things we ignore often come back to us in our sleep.”

Source : Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden
“If you can't be proud of what you do, go and sell shoes. Do something else.”

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