“I think the arts has great potential to create citizens. Citizenship is about the direction your imagination travels. We can't plan or calculate or examine citizenship; it's an imagined thing. Community is an imagined thing. And if your imagination isn't working - and, of course, in oppressed people that's the first thing that goes - you can't imagine anything better. Once you can imagine something different, something better, then you're on your way.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayFirstsArtDifferentCoursesCommunityImaginationImaginePlansCitizensOppressedCitizenshipSomething Better Author:Lee Maracle
“We cannot too soon convince ourselves how easily we may be dispensed with in the world. What important personages we imagine ourselves to be! We think that we alone are the life of the circle in which we move; in our absence, we fancy that life, existence, breath will come to a general pause, and, alas, the gap which we leave is scarcely perceptible, so quickly is it filled again; nay, it is often the place, if not of something better, at least for something more agreeable.” IfsThinkingWorldLifeMayImportantMovingExistenceImagineBreathsFilledAbsenceCirclesFancyConvinceGapsPausesAlasSomething Better Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“To invent something you have to be removed from the world. In order to have liberty to imagine something better, you need to step outside for a while.” WorldNeedsOrderLibertyStepsImagineSomething Better Author:Bruce Mau