"The approach to "building" a story with words and phrases is no different than "building" a painting with brushes and pigments."

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Floyd Cooper

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“I am very fascinated by the idea of hyperbole in subject matter as well as production. I like the idea of going overboard in producing an art piece and I like the way it brings the work away from a meditative space of reflection to a more direct, impactful tool that can compete with the mainstream. I like all these power plays, which have a lot to do with contextualization. In turn, I'm interested in creating crossovers between creative disciplines and in a way in subverting the expected role of the artist in society.”
“We should remember that it is quite as much a part of friendship to be delicate in its demands as to be ample in its performances.”

Source : John Frederick Boyes (1859). “Life and Books: Or, Records of Thought and Reading”, p.3
“I wanted to show young people that taking a stand can be done by simply standing firm in your convictions.”

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“I got a nice nine-month vacation living on the beach collecting sand dollars, and I really got to reflect and realize that in entertainment, you can definitely go too far.”
“Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream.”
“It's this simple: You are a brand. You are in charge of your brand. There is no single path to success. And there is no one right way to create the brand called You. Except this: Start today. Or else.”
“When I say myself, I don't mean just as a woman of color, as a girl who's growing up in the Bronx, as people growing up in some way economically-challenged, not growing up with money. It was also even just the way we spoke. The vernacular. I learned that it's alright to say "ain't." My characters can speak the way they authentically are, and that makes for good story. It's not making for good story to make them speak proper English when nobody speaks like that on the playground.”
“My parents always went to rallies and demonstrated against certain things; my generation, we often have a political conscience, but we're not that involved.”

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