“I am exhausted by traditional memoir. I am exhausted by the architectu...” — David Shields Quote

I am exhausted by traditional memoir. I am exhausted by the architecture of the conventional novel.

Denied dancing and musical instruments, slaves expressed a hidden tradition of musicality and poetics by tongue and signal.

I like art with a visible string to the world.

In music, they're not endlessly rewriting Beethoven's 'Third Symphony;' in visual art, they aren't painting portraits of 16th-century royalty. Art moves forward.

I used to feel that everything I know I learned through my lifelong struggle with stuttering; I now feel this way about my damn back.

Architecture is art, nothing else.

No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical.

I think architecture is rarely the product of a single ideology. It's more like it can be shaped by a really big idea. It can accommodate a lot of life forms.

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