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Simon Pegg

"In the most basic terms it was about how when we experience art without critical awareness we consent to the ideas being promoted, either intentionally or unintentionally, by the filmmaker. For instance, if you watch a racist comedian and laugh at his jokes, you are consenting to the prejudices inherent within them. Similarly, if you watch a movie which perpetuates conventional ideas about race, gender, etc., you are consenting to them and not affecting change in any way."

-- Simon Pegg

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“It's so hard for me to even acknowledge America without talking about race. If you look at our society, if you look at the prisons, if you look at the poverty and which side of the line the majority of people are, we have to acknowledge how we divide ourselves up, that there's racism alive in this country. And it's not in the law. It's in our minds. And that's what we have to actively battle.”
“If the guy that writes you checks says cut your hair, off to the barber shop you go. That's that.”
“If it wasn't for 2 Live Crew videos wouldn't look like they do and rappers wouldn't sound like they do.”
“Beauty is that little something that fills the whole world, and is contained neither in a single straight nose, a long eyelash, nor a blue mountain. Some see it in a leg of mutton, others in a compound fracture; and to expect others to accept one's own definition of it is as absurd as to expect all humanity to use the same toilet-brush.”

Source : William Morris Hunt (1878). “W.M. Hunt's Talks about Art: With a Letter from J.E. Millais”
“What is all this juice and all this joy?”
“I became a writer in spite of my environments.”
“Silence is letting what there is be what it is. In that sense it has to do profoundly with God: the silence of simply being. We experience that at times when there is nothing we can say or do that would not intrude on the integrity and the beauty of that being.”

Source : Rowan Williams (2007). “Where God Happens: Discovering Christ in One Another”, p.43, Shambhala Publications
“[O]ften art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. . . .”

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