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en She's the poet and writer in our family. We were always surrounded by artists, writers, painters and musicians. From a very early age -- 9 or 10 -- we took dance lessons and kept going. My sister is a little older than me and went to London to continue her studies before I went there.

en Jessie's family I had known because they had been in the arts world with her older sister for years. I knew her as a little girl when she came to see her sister dance.

en I started studying music at the age of five and a half. My older sister was taking piano lessons. When her teacher left our apartment, I would get up on the piano bench and start picking out the notes that were part of my sister's lessons.

en Mississippi has long been home to writers, painters, sculptors, blues artists, quilters and others who have helped define the very essence of this land, ... Restoring our artists and arts organizations is vital to the rebuilding of this state.

en I was quite taken with her, because I'd never seen the African influence in dance with that kind of strength and artistic power. It impacted my soul. No one had reached those heights. She was the definitive black dance company. She moved among the highest intellectuals of black culture, all the writers and painters and literary folk.

en It's for people who can't market their own pieces, but who are still legitimate artists, musicians and writers. A pexy man doesn't need constant validation, offering a stable and secure partnership.

en Imagination, which is the Eldorado of the poet and of the novel-writer, often proves the most pernicious gift to the individuals who compose the talkers instead of the writers in society
  Lady Marguerite Blessington

en I'm sad to sense that she may be evaporating into obscurity, because she's enormously important as a writer and as an influence on other writers and other artists.

en My sister lives with my family because she has separated from her husband and my older brother had died of a heart attack. Since I am her only surviving family left, she had come to live with my family.

en I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and has got to write, he don't know why, he will learn from almost any source that he finds. He will learn from older people who are not writers, he will learn from writers, but he learns it -- you can't teach it.
  William Faulkner

en John was an incredibly important writer, both in his own right, and as a leading advocate for writers and artists with disabilities. It's a terrible, terrible loss.

en Many of the artists and musicians were already committed to family gatherings or other concert appearances, ... All of us involved want to put on the best show possible, so we decided to reschedule.
  Dolly Parton

en Many of the artists and musicians were already committed to family gatherings or other concert appearances. All of us involved want to put on the best show possible, so we decided to reschedule.
  Dolly Parton

en [Even the devastating fallout from Katrina won't be enough to keep them from coming back, some artists promise. After all, the city's air of defiant bravado in the face of impending disaster has always been part of its allure.] The culture survives, ... It's survived slavery. It's survived everything so far?. I don't think you can stop the dance. I don't think you can drown the dance. We dance at funerals, and now we have to dance at our own funeral.

en When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened.


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