#pre

An artist, in my understanding of the word, should side with the people against the Emperor that oppresses his or her people. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#artist #emperor #her #his #oppresses

The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#bad #body #contact #european #five

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin. ↗

— Henry Adams

#darwin #evidence #evolution #grant #president

If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past. ↗

— Dean Acheson

#best #changing #learn #must #past

The literary culture, if you examine it, the high literary culture is that which preserves the government and you know it's really the talk for those who have. ↗

— Kathy Acker

#examine #government #high #know #literary

Liberty is the prevention of control by others. ↗

— John Acton

#liberty #others #prevention

I'm pretty Sicilian if I've been crossed. I don't seek revenge, but I never forget. And I make it hard to repair, which is not a great quality because if people held me to that standard, no one would be around me - ever. ↗

— Amy Adams

#because #been #crossed #ever #forget

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#being #deepest #expresses #feels #fully

I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can! ↗

— Ansel Adams

#arts #both #camera #does #express

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#landscape #often #photographer #photography #supreme