Mark McMorris Quotes

• There's a champion in all of us, it's how you choose to find it.

  Mark McMorris

  Champion, You Choose

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• Stay excited and stay humble and good things will come.

  Mark McMorris

  Humble, Stay Humble, Excited

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• Snowboarding allows you to create your own path, and for me it was awesome because no one was telling me what to do. I could go out on the mountain and try new things and learn for myself.

  Mark McMorris

  Snowboarding, Trying, Mountain

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• The best thing you can do is to keep riding your snowboard and love what you're doing. Without a passion for the sport it's difficult to take your riding to the next level.

  Mark McMorris

  Sports, Passion, Next

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• My intention is not to repudiate an African American identity but perhaps to resist how labels take hold, or to make it as slow a process as possible. That's more my sense of it.

  Mark McMorris

  African American, Identity, Labels

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• The nation as the horizon of an identity that you want to come into being as a fundamental absence of something that is compromised, something that needs to be rescued or made - these matters preoccupy the third world writer. It is seductive for a Marxist understanding of literary practice and production in the sense that it says that material culture determines literary output.

  Mark McMorris

  Practice, Seductive, Understanding

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• All third world literature is about nation, that identity is the fundamental literary problem in the third world. The writer's identity is insecure because the nation's identity is not secure. The nation doesn't provide the third world writer with a secure identity, because the nation is colonized, it's oppressed, it's part of somebody else's empire.

  Mark McMorris

  Insecure, Identity, Empires

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• Making of poetry, music, dance and art as culture-making in the service of nation-making. You can find writings that make that purpose for art quite explicit.

  Mark McMorris

  Art, Writing, Culture

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• A wedding is earth and water and a species of irreducible light and the flat belly of a harbor and a mango about to ripen and fall into gravity's caress and the waves subsiding and resuming their concerto in a minor key and the rush hour canceled by the stun of auspicious beginnings.

  Mark McMorris

  Fall, Keys, Light

  Mark McMorris (2003). “The Blaze of the Poui: Poems”, p.69, University of Georgia Press

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• Anyway, culture and nation are partners, inextricable from each other. National culture and nation, they are reciprocities.

  Mark McMorris

  Culture, Partners, Reciprocity

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• A wedding is at once a crowded place and a private room, packed with trusts and empty of all but the heart's letters which one other heart may read and decipher.

  Mark McMorris

  Heart, Letters, May

  Mark McMorris (2003). “The Blaze of the Poui: Poems”, p.67, University of Georgia Press

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• Production of identity is a resistance element, an aggressive element. Both a refusal and an affirmation and an assertion, and certainly, we in Jamaica were talking about black art. And the idea that there is a role for art in the civil rights revolution and in the successor to the civil rights revolution.

  Mark McMorris

  Art, Ideas, Rights

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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