ISeeTheWorldInMetaphor

"The Self must create its own reasons for being. To shape God, shape Self." Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler

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James Baldwin on minor characters with Paris Review.

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Zora Neale Hurston's pen game is just 😮‍💨

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Liu Xiaodong, “Bent Rib”, oil on canvas, 150 x 140 cm, 2010

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"Life is a choice and not a sentence, but often we do not realize this. When we accept life as a bundle of constraints we are actually making a choice. I want to tell people: if you choose to live, then do it well. So many people are standing by the exit door: they neither take part in life wholeheartedly nor leave it. They live in the shadow of death."

—Abbas Kiarostami

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Q: What are the possibilities of cinema? Abbas Kiarostami: At the end of my latest film, The Taste of Cherry, the central character, Mr. Badii, goes down into a pit and lies down. The moon disappears behind clouds and everything fades into darkness. For a whole minute nothing is shown on the screen. Life, cinema and light become one. With its magical power, cinema is a remarkable instrument for stimulating wonder and casting doubt on the most deeply rooted ideas.

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"People do not know themselves until they get to know their own repressed desires. They have to be revealed to themselves. Before any transformation can take place, we have to know our own legitimate needs, which originate in dreams. Our dreams grow out of the bitter experience of daily life, which they endeavor to transcend by seeking a life of their own. The cinema can provide a window looking out from the mediocrity of life on to the world of dreams. Reality is the launching pad for dreams. Everything must start from reality, just as you launch a kite into the wind but hold on to the strings. The kite-strings lead us to reality. We enter the dream world and come back to real life. After dreaming, reality may seem easier to bear, since the change of scene has brought an influx of energy and alleviated the sufferings of everyday existence. On the other hand, reality may seem intolerable, uglier and more oppressive than before—a dead end. If this is the case, then we must change reality. We follow our dream until reality is transformed into dream and dream into reality."

—Abbas Kiarostami

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King Charles III remains the Head of State of Jamaica.

Jamaica imports 60% of the food it consumes.

Jamaica has the third-highest rate of “brain drain” in the world, outranked by Samoa as the first and Palestine second.

This is what frames my dreams for true independence for my country. Sovereignty.

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La Chapelle 'The Chapel' (1980) directed by. Jean-Michel Tchissoukou

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Child… can your intuition become a place of rest instead of surveillance?

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Almost done with this sketch of my neighbor-Auntie Minnah. I love her face. I love seeing her look off at the hills from her verandah.

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Natalia Motuzko - The Voice of Grass (1992)