"It is often easier to learn from the mistakes of others than from our own."

“Only by spiritual practice can we break through our karma and the effects of the causes we have made. Only then can we escape from them. It matters not whether you have acquired any merit. Merit is merit. Karma is karma. Nonetheless, if one practices the Quan Yin Method, one can be liberated regardless of having any merit or not. It is so logical, so scientific.”

“There is no permanent absolute unchangeable truth; what we should pursue is the most convenient arrangement of our ideas.”

“The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective. What I mean by objectivity is not the objectivity of a machine, but of a sensible human being with the mystery of personal selection at the heart of it. The second challenge has been to impose order onto the things seen and to supply the visual context and the intellectual framework - that to me is the art of photography.”

“I grew up as a really sick kid; I had really bad childhood asthma and was at home all the time in New York.”

“I see things like they've never been seen before. Art is an accurate statement of the time in which it is made”

“I put the ball in play. That's what I want.”

“Sometimes there isn't a way to hug and make everything better.”

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“The silencing of the Haitian Revolution is only a chapter within a narrative of global domination. It is part of the history of the West and it is likely to persist, even in attenuated form, as long as the history of the West is not retold in ways that bring forward the perspective of the world.”

Source : Michel-Rolph Trouillot (2015). “Silencing the Past (20th anniversary edition): Power and the Production of History”, p.73, Beacon Press