"USURY: Everybody's looking for the job in which you never have to pay anyone their pound of flesh. Self-employed nirvana. A lot of artists like to think of themselves as uncompromising; a lot of management consultants won't tell you what they do until they've sunk five pints. I don't think anybody should give themselves air just because they don't have to hand over a pound of flesh every day at 5pm, and I don't think anyone should beat themselves with broken glass because they do. If you're an artist, well, good for you. Thank your lucky stars every evening and dance in the garden with the fairies. But don't fool yourself that you occupy some kind of higher moral ground. You have to work for that. Writing a few lines, painting a pretty picture - that just won't do it." <[b>ZADIE SMITH]
"To be changed by ideas was pure pleasure. But to learn ideas that ran counter to values and beliefs learned at home was to place oneself at risk, to enter the danger zone. Home was the place where I was forced to conform to someone else’s image of who and what I should be. School was the place where I could forget that self and, through ideas, reinvent myself." <[b>bell hooks]
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White Teeth by Zadie Smith, On Beauty by Zadie Smith, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center by bell hooks, Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations by bell hooks, Killing Rage: Ending Racism by bell hooks, Black Looks: Race and Representation by bell hooks, Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies by bell hooks, Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black by bell hooks, The Ysis/Isis Papers by Dr. Fracis Cress Welsing, Sexual Personae (I & II) by Camille Paglia, Sex, Art and American Culture: Essays by Camille Paglia, Vamps and Tramps: New Essays by Camille Paglia, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, When the Legends Die by Hal Borland, The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo, Taking the Leap: Building a Career as a Visual Artist by Cay Lang, The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, As You Like It by William Shakespeare, Othello by William Shakespeare, The 12th Night by William Shakespeare, The Stranger by Albert Camus, The Vampire Armand by Anne Rice, I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere by Anna Gavalda, Medea by Euripides, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Shanghai Baby by Wei Hui, Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri, The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri, Orlando by Virginia Woolf ..........
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