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I think we can learn a lot about a person in the very moment that language fails them. In the very moment they they have to be more creative than they would have imagined in order to communicate. It's the very moment that they have to dig deeper than the surface to find words, and at the same time, it's a moment when they want to communicate very badly. They're digging deep and projecting out at the same time.
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We who are in the arts are at the risk of being in a popularity contest rather than a profession. If that fact causes you despair . . . pick another profession. Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities . . . We have to create our own standards of discipline.
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You are an explorer. You understand that every time you go into the studio, you are after something that does not yet exist.
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Commit to finding the true nature of art. Go for that thing no one can teach you. Go for that communion, that real communion with your soul, and the discipline of expressing that communion with others. That doesn't come from competition. That comes from being one with what you are doing.
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Even jealousy is based on fantasies: a fantasy that someone else has what belongs to you.
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My job in my work is not to acquire power; it's to question power.
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He was trying to get me to come inside and away from the scene, but I said, "No." I said, "We have to stay here and watch because this is wrong."
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Rhetoric is what shapes history, if not truth.
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Art requires that you make something else exist that is a representation of what your feeling is, or your idea.
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I said, "Los Angeles burned but Los Angeles is but one city experiencing this kind of hopelessness and despair," I said, "and we need a job program with stipends ..." I said, "These young people really, ya know, are not in anybody's statistics or data. They've been dropped off of everybody's agenda. They live from grandmama to mama to girlfriend." I said, "We now got young people who are twenty, twenty-one, twenty-two years old who have nev..
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