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“Fear comes from the unknown. Once you know, then, whatever.”

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Pierre Huyghe is a French artist known for his interdisciplinary artistic practice. His works blend film, installation art, photography, and performance, exploring concepts of time, memory, and reality. more

“With the garden I planted for the Reina Sofia, each plant related to different celebrations along the calendar - Christmas with evergreen trees, Valentine's Day with roses, Halloween with pumpkins. All these symbols are so culturally loaded, but they are organic living entities - just like the fish in the tanks. They grow on their own. The symbolic ecosystem is growing without a narrative anymore. It's a physical and mental landscape.”

Different Tree Garden Rose Plant Celebration Halloween Pumpkin

Author:Pierre Huyghe

“I'm more interested in the diversity of people in New York. I like to be lost. I like to feel like a foreigner. I like not to know everything. I'm trying not to burn the whole city. I try to consume it in slow motion.”

People Trying Diversity

Author:Pierre Huyghe

“New York is like traveling without actually moving.”

Moving

Author:Pierre Huyghe

“People who are under certain stress have aquariums. Aquariums are classically either a reproduction of nature or a decorative element, like the ones you can see in big hotels.”

People Stress Hotel

Author:Pierre Huyghe

“I put an octopus in aquarium, and it would eat the others. But if you put an octopus in with a school of tiny fish, he might not be able to catch them. That's an archetypal structure: a powerful individual versus the multitude, the crowd. You can relate to that.”

School Individual Powerful

Author:Pierre Huyghe

“The War on Drugs is a war on people, but particularly it's been a war on low-income people and a war on minorities. We know in the United States of America there is no difference in drug use between black, white and Latinos. But if you're Latino in the United States of America, you're about twice as likely to be arrested for drug use than if you're white. If you're black, you are about four times as likely to be arrested if you're African American than if you are white. This drug war has done so much to destroy, undermine, sabotage families, communities, neighborhoods, cities.”

People War Done Black Community Drug African American Neighborhood Latino War On Drugs Sabotage

Author:Cory Booker

“Here, we have a country that is making its veterans, people who are struggling with post-traumatic stress, people who are struggling with depression, who often they're only hope is their access to marijuana to treat these illnesses, and here we are criminalizing them for doing what's necessary to stabilize their lives as a result of their service. This is not who we are as a country. We are better than this.”

People Country Struggle Stress Illness Marijuana Veteran

Author:Cory Booker

“Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.”

Stills Voice Water Minutes Dog Cold Shoulders Shakes Relax Where You Are Shaking Spine Cold Water

Book:High Tide in Tucson

Source: High Tide in Tucson

“We started America with the sin of slavery that led right into the post-reconstruction period which was the greatest period of domestic terrorism in our country's history. Then after that, we had Jim Crow emerge and just when the Jim Crow laws were ending came the onslaught of the drug war. Well, the drug war has so perniciously effected, insidiously infected communities of color that in some ways it has come full circle, and we now have more African Americans under criminal supervision than all of the slaves in 1865. This is a profoundly unjust war.”

War Community Sin Drug Slavery Slave Terrorism African American Crow War On Drugs Jim Crow Supervision

Author:Cory Booker

“We need to be acting responsible as adults, and I don't endorse in any way the irresponsible use of marijuana. But I do believe we have come to a point in our society where we need to end prohibition. We need to have taxed, regulated marijuana within American communities.”

Believe Community Acting Responsible Marijuana Prohibition

Author:Cory Booker

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