Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
Chinua Achebe
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You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut. -
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Growing up going to Christian school and the concept that you're born a sinner and you don't really have a choice to change who you are has been hammered into my head and created the entire reason why I made art and made a band and made records called 'Antichrist Superstar.' -
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- I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to identify with someone you don't see, who's very far away, who's a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders.
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