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No matter how much commercial success I achieved, I knew that would never be enough.

— Misan Harriman

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I want people who are scared and angry to look at someone that looks differently to them and see a human being.

When people are confronted with truth, they embark on their own process of recognition.

You have to let the great joy and beauty of the world be seen, but also the rage, the injustice of it all.

Somehow I’ve been quite allowed and able to function in a society that doesn’t usually accept that.

I once said that to be an artist is to watch the sun rise and set with the devil next to you.

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