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“...true decolonization was not just a political project, but also one rooted in self-actualization through self-expression.”
― The African Gaze: Photography, Cinema and Power
― The African Gaze: Photography, Cinema and Power
“Tomorrow the One Who Has No Name, he mused, might become He Who Has No Identity, and then He Who Has No Body, and then He Who Can't Be Caught and Thrown in Jail.”
― Frankenstein in Baghdad
― Frankenstein in Baghdad
“You can't step into the same stream twice because it's always flowing. Everything is.”
― The Creative Act: A Way of Being
― The Creative Act: A Way of Being
“Not content with being Pope Joan, you must be Caesar and Alexander as well.”
― Saint Joan
― Saint Joan
“A thousand sons must have been where he was now and turned back from their horses, wagons, rickshaws, cyclos, buses, schooners, trains, even dusty sandaled feet.”
― The Emperor of Gladness
― The Emperor of Gladness
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