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Sally Mann
“How can a sentient person of the modern age mistake photography for reality? All perception is selection, and all photographs--no matter how objectively journalistic the photographer's intent--exclude aspects of the moment's complexity. Photographs economize the truth; they are always moments more or less illusorily abducted from time's continuum.”
Sally Mann, Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs
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Chinua Achebe
“It was the time of the full moon. But that night the voice of children was not heard. The village ilo where they always gathered for a moon-play was empty. The women of Iguedo did not meet in their secret enclosure to learn a new dance to be displayed later to the village. Young men who were always abroad in the moonlight kept their huts that night. Their manly voices were not heard on the village paths as they went to visit their friends and lovers. Umuofia was like a startled animal with ears erect, sniffing the silent, ominous air and not knowing which way to run.”
Chinua Achebe, THINGS FALL APART

Chinua Achebe
“There is nothing to fear from someone who shouts.”
Chinua Achebe, THINGS FALL APART

Chinua Achebe
“Having spoken plainly so far, Okoye said the next half a dozen sentences in proverbs. Among the Ibo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm oil with which words are eaten.”
Chinua Achebe, THINGS FALL APART

Chinua Achebe
“But the Ibo have a proverb that when a man says yes his chi says yes also.”
Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart

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