"The photograph is to a great degree evidence of the conversation I had with the person. It's a part of my visual diary."

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Jamel Shabazz

#Degrees Quotes #Diaries Quotes #Photograph Quotes

“Literature + Illness = Illness”
“When I fight about what is going on in the neighborhood, or when I fight about what is happening to other people's children, I'm doing that because I want to leave a community and a world that is better than the one I found.”
“But if we can learn to fall more in love with the Lord and trust Him in the middle of every storm, we build our endurance to keep running the race.”
“God can only be of service to me and I to him, not in the past, nor in the future, but only right now in this moment.”
“Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.”
“But sometimes, that depth of needâ€”to save, to protectâ€”can become a blinding fervor, one that destroys the very thing it thinks to safeguard.”
“If I could take all my parts with me when I go somewhere / and not have to say to one of them, â€˜No, you stay home tonight, you wonâ€™t be welcomeâ€™/ because Iâ€™m going to an all-white party where I can be gay but not Black / Or Iâ€™m going to a Black poetry reading, and half the poets are anti-homosexual / or thousands of situations where something of what I am cannot come with me / The day all the different parts of me can come along / we would have what I would call / a revolution”
“Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.”

Source : Andy Goldsworthy (2001). “Midsummer Snowballs”, Harry N. Abrams

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