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I’ve turned all of those tools of oppression into beauty and art.

— Mamela Nyamza

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More quotes by Mamela Nyamza

In Africa, anyone can dance, en pointe or not

I feel like I had to knock on every door for it to be opened. To come here was a march. I’ve been in constant fights all my life

Sometimes it’s good to not have everybody like the work because that is what a work of art is

Some will love it, some will hate it, some will be like, “hmm.” It’s art

Failing is good because you get better at it by doing it

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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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