An admirable tale of self-acceptance
by : Katie Ingram
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Her mother and her mother’s friends were her first editors and Margaret Lawrence was one of her first critics.
“I understand that Rita’s estate wants to protect their interests, but I don’t see the book as competition for any product they might want to sell,” says author Charlie Rhindress.
“It was not good when I started it.”
“If journalists are afraid, or aren’t permitted, to follow major stories … we lose a keystone of democracy in Canada: press freedom and the right to know.”
“I live my life a person of African descent 24/7, 365.”
“Voices started to shout, ‘Preach it!’ ‘Testify!’ ‘You’re home now!’”
“That summer — 1975 — I started to write songs. I wrote four songs a day and I did that for two or three years.”
“As voters we are behaving more and more like our neighbours to the South, with their presidential system, and we vote for one leader or the other.”
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Undaunted, the Art Gallery of Hamilton has waded into the breach with the exhibition and book project Ken Danby: Beyond the Crease. In doing so, they are honouring an artist who remains one of the most popular with the Canadian public and one who has, at least since the 1970s, been steadfastly ignored by most public art museums, especially the largest ones such as the Art Gallery of Hamilton itself.
