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Mazer: The alternative to appropriation is a world in which artists only reference their own cultures. Kotaku: That’s an oversimplification of the issue. Mazer: The alternative to appropriation is a world where white European people make art about white European people, with only white European references in it. Swap African or Asian or Latin or whatever culture you want for European. A world where everyone is blind and deaf to any culture or experience that is not their own. I hate that world, don’t you?
“We’ve never…It’s more than romantic. It’s better than romance. It’s friendship.”
It isn’t a sadness, but a joy, that we don’t do the same things for the length of our lives.”
“What is a game?” Marx said. “It’s tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. It’s the possibility of infinite rebirth, infinite redemption. The idea that if you keep playing, you could win. No loss is permanent, because nothing is permanent, ever.”
You couldn’t be old and still be wrong about as many things as she’d been wrong about, and it was a kind of immaturity to call yourself old before you were.
