"I used to love to play dress-up, where you get your mother's or your grandmother's dresses and high heels."

-- Suzanne Farrell

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“I don't believe in censorship, but I do believe that an artist has to take some moral responsibility for what he or she is putting out there.”
“The miraculous is not extraordinary but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread. Whoever really has considered the lilies of the field or the birds of the air and pondered the improbability of their existence in this warm world within the cold and empty stellar distances will hardly balk at the turning of water into wine which was, after all, a very small miracle. We forget the greater and still continuing miracle by which water (with soil and sunlight) is turned into grapes.”
“I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.”
“Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter.”

Source : Stephen King (2008). “Duma Key: A Novel”, p.559, Simon and Schuster
“Reading is socially accepted disassociation. You flip a switch and youâ€™re not there anymore. Itâ€™s better than heroin. More effective and cheaper and legal.”
“Arguably the most important parallel between mass incarceration and Jim Crow is that both have served to define the meaning and significance of race in America. Indeed, a primary function of any racial caste system is to define the meaning of race in its time. Slavery defined what it meant to be black (a slave), and Jim Crow defined what it meant to be black (a second-class citizen). Today mass incarceration defines the meaning of blackness in America: black people, especially black men, are criminals. That is what it means to be black.”

Source : "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness". Book by Michelle Alexander, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2010.
“The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.”
“Art is the act of triggering deep memories, of what it means to be fully human.”

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