Jennifer Clement Quotes

#1. If you were quiet about something then it never happened. Someone would write a song about it for sure. Everything you're not supposed to know about, or talk about, eventually turned up in a song. Some

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#2. He paints a simple square house with a triangle roof that has an "S" inside, "Because, Suzanne, you are my home.

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#3. He refuses to sell his paintings and writes "NOT FOR SALE" on some of them. He is furious because people are writing about his ghetto childhood and call him a "graffiti artist" and "primitive." "They don't invent a childhood for white artists," he says.

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#4. You can leave but you can always come back. You can live here again. Life can be a circle, not just a line.

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#5. When we walk I hear your footsteps
and miss your voice

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#6. I miss you even
when you are here

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#7. She told me to tell you love is not a feeling. It's a sacrifice.

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#8. He loved to shock, even with generosity. It was like punching someone.

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#9. High heels are a plot against women, they throw our spines out and stop us from standing on the ground.

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#10. Don't ever pray for love and health, Mother said. Or money. If G-d hears what you really want he will not give it to you. Guaranteed. When my father left my mother said, get down on your knees and pray for spoons

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#11. He stepped on my shadow. I could not walk. And then I could not breathe. I did not know what had happened until it happened. It was like trying to stop the rain.

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#12. He always appreciated expensive things, as if consuming them would make him valuable.

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#13. Jean was black and had to present himself as separate from graffiti somehow. Keith was gay and white and could glamorize graffiti in a way that Jean could not. Jean and Keith both understood this.

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