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		Lenelle Moïse's poems render the abstract - policy, disaster, history, diaspora - specific. Her words make the political not just personal, but corporeal: the beautiful system of the human body as canvas and subject, perfect in all its attendant complications and complexity, and still ruled, undeniably, by a warm, beating heart.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Erin McKeown 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		It's like driving your car. If you drive too fast on the highway, you will topple, so you better maintain your speed. Life is similar to that, and that's the way you have to control your head. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				A. R. Rahman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I know where my body's at, know how it feels, you know. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Calvin Johnson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		A bad hair day for me is when it gets flat and greasy. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Sabrina Carpenter 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Macaulay Culkin 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If the sun comes up, I have a chance. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Venus Williams 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Sammy Davis, Jr. 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		On average, the Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese are more similar to each other and are different from Australians, Israelis and the Swedes, who in turn are similar to each other and are different from Nigerians, Kenyans, and Jamaicans. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				J. Philippe Rushton 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				C. J. Cherryh 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				T. S. Eliot 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		A lot of people, especially Christians, want to put you in this box of being a Christian actor, and I don't believe in it. You do yourself and everyone else a big disservice when you start thinking about it as 'Christian art.' That's why most Christian art is bad. They don't put a premium on the 'art.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Zachary Levi 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Mahatma Gandhi 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Got your mama and sister dabbing. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Quavo 
			 
			
				Migos  
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				C. S. Lewis 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I used to be so angry about the kids that had stuff. Like the kids that had cars, the kids that had money to go get lunch every day off campus. I used to feel so slighted. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Matt de la Pena 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When the rhythm and night ride, no heart can hide. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Steve Winwood 
			 
			
				Blind Faith  
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I flew to New York to do a commercial back in the day when people could meet you at the gate, and the little agent when I came off the plane said, 'Oh, Miss Carr, we are so happy to have you here.' I went, 'Oh, for goodness sakes.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Vicki Lawrence 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I was the first one in my family to go to college. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Joe Lhota 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Lenelle Moïse's poems render the abstract - policy, disaster, history, diaspora - specific. Her words make the political not just personal, but corporeal: the beautiful system of the human body as canvas and subject, perfect in all its attendant complications and complexity, and still ruled, undeniably, by a warm, beating heart. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Erin McKeown