"They have our bundles split open in museums / our dresses & shirts at auctions / our languages on tape / our stories in locked rare book libraries / our dances on film / The only part of us they can't steal / is what we know."

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Source : Chrystos (1988). “Not vanishing”, Press Gang Pub

Chrystos

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“Black people should have recognition for themselves and their backgrounds and their relationships with other people in the world and thus lose some of their alienation. This museum has certainly stood for that in this town.”
“That typically English characteristic for which there is no English name -esprit de corps.”
“Life is like a bowl of spaghetti. Every once in a while, you get a meatball.”
“How little wives may realize that a biting, stinging word in the morning will rob a husband of efficiency the whole day long. But a loving, tender, beautiful wordâ€”a little prayer wordâ€”will fill him with music and will lead him into victory.”
“Nowadays we have so many things that take our attention - phones, Internet - and perhaps we need to disconnect from those and focus on the immediate world around us and the people that are actually present.”
“Everybody was in struggle, in the grind trying to make it.”
“The circumstances of your life have uniquely qualified you to make a contribution. And if you don't make that contribution, nobody else can make it.”
“Whatever begins to be tranquil is gobbled up by something not tranquil.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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