"Future is not to be feared but confronted" :) -Halo"

-- Alexandra Adornetto

“My stiffest earthly assignment is ended and my major life's work is done. My country is now free and I have been honoured to be its first indigenous head of state. What more could one desire in life?”

Source : Nnamdi Azikiwe's remarks on Nigerian Independence (October 1, 1960), as quoted in "Between then and now" by Olatunji Ololade at "The Nation Online", March 10, 2009.
“I thought, transgender people are much worse off than I am. That's why they're willing to risk everything to be who they are. But the older I got, the harder it got to stay in my body.”
“Home in her apartment she'd dwell 'til the man from her dreams comes to break the spell.”
“The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.”
“Alas, regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.”

Source : 'Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College' (1747) l. 51
“Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.”
“The beads around my neck [at Olympics in 1968] indicated that there were so many Blacks throughout the history of this country that have been maimed and killed by way of hangings.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.”

Source : Thierry de Duve, Clement Greenberg (1996). “Clement Greenberg Between the Lines: Including a Previously Unpublished Debate with Clement Greenberg”, Dis Voir Editions

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