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The beauty of being a child of the diaspora is that we are able to reinvent ourselves and what it means to be African.

— Kudzanai-Violet Hwami

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The act of using collage is helpful as a reminder of the fragility of the human condition.

I allowed myself to learn from them instead of imposing ideas of how I wanted Zimbabwe to be.

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Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.

Democritus Freeman (1948)

True beauty dwells in deep retreats,
Whose veil is unremoved
Till heart with heart in concord beats,
And the lover is beloved.

William Wordsworth

The great artists are the ones who dare to entitle to beauty things so natural that when they're seen afterward, people say: Why did I never realize before that this too was beautiful?

André Gide The Immoralist (1902)

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator.

William Shakespeare The Rape of Lucrece (1594)

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