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Black cultural movements always have to deal with this question of memory because it is the only raw material, the only stock, that they can turn to

— John Akomfrah

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The fact that I was black was a kind of accident that had to be overcome

Empathy is something that I’m keen to hang onto

I can’t give over my life to silence in the name of an avoidance of pain

It’s funny, the powerful never get over anything

We still live in an age in which the language of protest is largely demonized and pathologized as not having a raison d'être

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Man should possess an infinite appetite for life. It should be self-evident to him, all the time, that life is superb, glorious, endlessly rich, infinitely desirable.

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To live in hearts we leave behind
Is not to die.

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In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important a function as recollecting.

William James The Principles of Psychology (1890)

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