"We asked a lot of questions and we watched everyone who was working in the studio. And we had an opportunity to sit in on discussions, aesthetic discussions at the pottery, which took place generally over tea breaks in the morning and afternoon. So we learned a lot just from being around there [with Bernard Leach ]."

-- Warren MacKenzie

#Morning Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Tea Quotes

“I was born dead. Yeah, the umbilical cord was like, floppy baby, the whole thing. Yeah, it was bad.”
“It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool”
“Standing in our power requires us to let go of the need to make others like us & instead stand committed to honoring ourselves.”
“Life is an ongoing, never-ending process of re-creation.”
“My joke is a picture of David Bowie on his balcony in the '70s in a suit in Paris, and unless that's you, I'm not interested. There are very few aesthetic types that I have, and people who look like that are not always necessarily good for me.”
“It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.”
“You can't drown yourself that simply. All good suicides involve speed and irreversibility, because the body will always move to protect itself against the sicko mind trying to do it in.”

Source : Josephine Humphreys (2000). “Dreams of Sleep”, p.122, Penguin
“We do not want to be reminded that it is we, the indigenous people, who are poor and exploited in the land of our birth. These are concepts which the Black Consciousness approach wishes to eradicate from the black man's mind before our society is driven to chaos by irresponsible people from Coca-cola and hamburger cultural backgrounds.”

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