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Category Archives: History
Retro Quote – Chris Rock
“I’m sure there were no Black nominees some of those years…say, ’62, ’63. And Black people did not protest. Why? Because we had real things to protest at the time.”
Chris Rock, during his monologue at the 2016 Oscar ceremonies
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Retro Quote – Walt Whitman
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Retro Quote – Claes Oldenburg
“I am for an artist that is political-erotical-mystical; that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum.”
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Retro Quote – Sylvia Plath
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Retro Quote – John Vance Cheney
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Retro Quote – Virginia Woolf
“If you do not tell the truth about yourself, you cannot tell it about other people.”
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Retro Quote – Anaïs Nin
“It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.”
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Retro Quote – Chinua Achebe
“The world is like a mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.”
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