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“I think art is much more valuable when it's honest. If it's not honest, it's just propaganda.”

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I don't doubt that straight white men have identity issues and identity complexes and struggle with defining themselves.

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There are a plethora of ways of being black, just like there's many ways to being white.

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The way Hollywood and TV is, black people don't have any choice but to see ourselves in white-dominated television shows and stories and movies.

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Self-doubt is a constant companion for a chubby, gay, black boy born in the South.

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True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.

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Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the…

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“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.”

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The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

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That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

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The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.

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During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.

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