“As a Black woman filmmaker I feel that’s my job: visibility. And my preference within that job is Black subjectivity. Meaning I’m interested in the lives of Black folk as the subject. Not the predicate, not the tangent.[These stories] deserve to be told. Not as sociology, not as spectacle, not as a singular event that happens every so often, but regularly and purposefully as truth and as art on an ongoing basis, as do the stories of all the women you love.” FeelsArtStoriesHappensJobsBlackSubjectsEventsDeserveBasesFolksFilmmakerBlack WomenSociologyPreferenceOngoingSubjectivityVisibility Author:Ava DuVernay
“For those that have said I seemed dickish to some of the nuttier guests on Joe Rogan Questions Everything - guilty as charged. As the season wore on I lost my patience with some of those folks unfortunately. I think I overdosed on ridiculous/likely fake stories. I certainly learned a lot about the kind of people that invest a large portion of their life on fringe subjects - they're all white. I think there's something interesting about the subjects, (UFOS, etc) but the study of them has often been overrun by silly thinking.” PeopleThinkingKindSaidStoriesLostWhiteInterestingStudySubjectsSeasonsFolksRidiculousSillyGuiltyFakeEtcGuestsPortionsFringeUfoSomething Interesting Author:Joe Rogan
“The problem with reality TV is that creative writers are not involved; TV folks are, and some journalists who will only mine the surface of subjects. Hard work necessary for discovering and delineating the intimacies of the subjects they capture is mostly avoided.” HardProblemRealityCreativeSubjectsMinesTvsHard WorkInvolvedFolksSurfaceIntimacyJournalistCaptureDiscoveringAvoidedReality TvCreative Writers Author:Lee Gutkind
“Anger is certainly a kind of baseness; as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns; children, women, old folks, sick folks. Only men must beware, that they carry their anger rather with scorn, than with fear; so that they may seem rather to be above the injury, than below it; which is a thing easily done, if a man will give law to himself in it.” IfsMenGivingWellsKindMayChildrenDoneSeemsLawSubjectsWeaknessSickAngerFolksInjuryReignScornBaseness Book:Works Source: Works
“Religion should be subject to commonsense appraisal and rational review, as openly discussible as, say, politics, art and the weather. The First Amendment, we should recall, forbids Congress both from establishing laws designating a state religion and from abridging freedom of speech. There is no reason why we should shy away from speaking freely about religion, no reason why it should be thought impolite to debate it, especially when, as so often happens, religious folk bring it up on their own and try to impose it on others.” ShouldTryingFirstsArtStatesReasonHappensLawReligiousSubjectsSpeechCongressFolksDebateRationalWeatherReason WhyShyNo ReasonReviewsAmendmentsRecallsFreedom Of SpeechFirst AmendmentAppraisal Author:Jeffrey Tayler