“I think that people always get what they deserve - whether you're around to see it or not.” Quote by Kareem Mortimer
“If Cargo is a catalyst to spark policy, that would be great. The more we're able to use it as an educational tool, the more it's a building block in youths' minds and peoples' minds to enact policy.” MindPolicyBuildingEducationalBlock Author:Kareem Mortimer
“The Bahamas is a small population. But it plays a lot bigger than the population suggests. You feel close to everything. Everything that happens in the wider world happens here. Like migration issues. Or refugee issues. Or homophobia.” WorldRefugeeHomophobia Author:Kareem Mortimer
“The Bahamas has a lot to say about the issues that affect it - the specific issues that also affect other communities. It offers a unique level of looking at, of entering a story. It's just like a mini-world.” CommunityUnique Author:Kareem Mortimer
“I think I want the best for my country. I can make work that makes us examine some truths about ourselves - that would be more of a contribution. That's how I see it.” ThinkingCountry Author:Kareem Mortimer
“I made Children of God because I had to make it. And with Cargo, I also felt like I had to. The impulse comes from something deep inside. Wanting to my country to be better. Because of where we are, we don't always have spaces to reflect.” ChildrenCountryImpulseChild Of God Author:Kareem Mortimer
“The best part of writing is thinking about the story. And then everything else takes a lot of discipline.” ThinkingWritingDiscipline Author:Kareem Mortimer
“When I write, I actually hear the characters speak. Almost like an actor - even though I'm not an actor at all - getting into their truth and to justify what they do.” WritingCharacterSpeakJustify Author:Kareem Mortimer
“I still feel like if I can get a song to work with, say, a basic beat, a rhythm, some chord changes, and a melody, a vocal melody - if it works with that, then I feel it's written and there's something there. So I intentionally don't get involved with arranging stuff or fussing over the sounds and the edits and the beats too much, at least not in the beginning, because I feel like then you can fool yourself that you've got something there, when you might not.” SongFoolRhythmMelodyGet Involved Author:David Byrne
“In a certain way, you get some new tools to work with, but I don't know if it ultimately makes the creative process any easier.” CreativeCreative Process Author:David Byrne
“There was an op-ed piece in The New York Times by an evolutionary biologist or somebody - which was a curious place for the opinion to come from - and he said that there's no such thing as a completely free, uncensored medium, that people censor themselves all the time, in deference to hurting other people's feelings, or offending other groups, or in their own, not to provoke a fight. And you do self-censor certain things, and it's not necessarily a bad thing. That's just the way human social interaction works.” PeopleFeelingsFightingHurtOpinionCuriousProvokingBiologistSocial InteractionHurting Others Author:David Byrne