"The Wire' really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud of."

-- Wendell Pierce

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“All over London as one walks, one everywhere, in the season, sees oranges to sell; and they are in general sold tolerably cheap, one and even sometimes two for a halfpenny; or, in our money, threepence.”

Source : Karl Philipp Moritz (2010). “Travels in England in 1782”, p.38, BoD – Books on Demand
“Healing comes when we meet our wounded places with compassion.”
“If you try to discuss multiculturalism in the UK you're labelled a racist. But here we're still free to talk, and I say multicultural society doesn't work. We're not living closer, we're living apart.”

Source : "Holland's high-camp hero of new politics". www.telegraph.co.uk. May 4, 2002.
“White people's fear of Black people with guns will never cease to amaze me. Probably it's because they think about what they would do were they in our place. Especially the police, who have done so much dirt to Black people - their guilty conscience tells them to be afraid. When Black people seriously organize and take up arms to fight for our liberation, there will be a lot of white people who will drop dead from no other reason than their own guilt and fear.”
“Oprah's got good politics, she's got a good heart, and she'll have us all up Jazzercising at six in the morning. This cannot be a bad thing, and reading a book while we're Jazzercising. So America would be better off if Oprah were president.”
“Because image traffic has become so heavy and so continuous, it now seems as if these millions of images came into being by themselves, without the agency of a person.”

Source : "Jeff Wall and Lucas Blalock: A Conversation on Pictures". Interview with Lucas Blalock, aperture.org.
“I put a What Would Jesus Do bracelet on my Jewish friend's wrist and it burned his skin. He threw it on the ground, it turned into a serpent, we both started laughing. We left it there, we hate snakes. We think they're slimy, even though we know they're not.”
“Awareness is ever there. It need not be realized. Open the shutter of the mind, and it will be flooded with light.”

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