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Wherever I go, I say: ‘What’s the alternative religion?’ because every country has it.

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In Black culture, as far as I know, women [always] worked.

Growing up, especially girls, they like to wear costumes and dress up and pretend to be other things, so that just seemed natural to me.

If you’re an assemblage artist, you don’t throw away anything.

Anything that has to do with the arts is hard living.

Hey, I like old boxes and bits of metal. I collect stuff. I can do that, too.

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All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

Albert Einstein Moral Decay (1937)

Science and religion are two human enterprises sharing many features.

Freeman Dyson Infinite in All Directions (1988)

The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.

John Adams A Defence of the Constitutions of Government (1787)

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Thomas Babington Macaulay History of England (1849)

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