“Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.”

— Rita Mae Brown

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Novelist, poet, screenwriter, activist 1944

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Context: To me, the body says what words cannot. I believe that dance was the first art. A philosopher has said that dance and architecture were the first arts. I believe that dance was first because it's gesture, it's communication. That doesn't mean it's telling a story, but it means it's communicating a feeling, a sensation to people.
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