In my thirties, I have felt a greater urgency to make art that highlights what it feels like to be racialized, likely due to living in a country that obscures our racism with the idea of "multiculturalism. "
In law, what plea so tainted and corrupts, but being seasoned with a gracious voice obscures the show of evil.
A story of particular facts is a mirror which obscures and distorts that which should be beautiful; poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which it distorts.
The understanding of some men is clear, that of others brilliant. The former illumines its surroundings; the latter obscures them.
There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
You know that you are. Don't burden yourself with names, just be. Any name or shape you give yourself obscures your real nature.
We do not build or create a spiritual consciousness; we merely get rid of all that obscures our pure vision
Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
The picture we present to ourselves of who we think we ought to be obscures who we really are.
Through death you find yourself, because you no longer identify with form. You realize you are not the form with which you had identified neither the physical nor the psychological form of "me". That form goes. It dissolves and who you are beyond form emerges through the opening where that form was. One could almost say that every form of life obscures God.
Lift the veil that obscures the heart, and there you will find what you are looking for.
I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don't think it was decided at that meeting. The trouble is, as soon as you've chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of. It's like going to a place that you've never been to before - you've got a picture of it and then you go there and that picture is totally wiped out by the reality.
An instrument that sometimes expresses thought, sometimes obscures thought, but most often replaces thought.
Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
The language that reveals also obscures.
Hatred obscures all distinctions.
Whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off the relish for spiritual things then it is sin for you, however, innocent it may be in itself.
