"Why do we pigeonhole and label an artist? It is a sure way of missing the important, the contradictory, the things that make him or her unique."

-- Lukas Foss

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“Let me be clear: I am not an advocate of censorship.”
“In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.”
“You must continue. Poets are the ones who change the world.”
“But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.”
“The internet, Facebook and Twitter have created mass communications and social spaces that regimes cannot control.”
“At the simplest level, only people who know they do not know everything will be curious enough to find things out.”

Source : Virginia Postrel (2011). “The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise,”, p.88, Simon and Schuster
“somewhere about the eighteenth century, history tacitly replaced religion as the school of public morals.”
“Many of us get our news from social networks, blogs, and daily aggregators.”

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