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Repost from @islandboiphotography “There is a Haitian saying which might upset the aesthetic images of most women. Nou lèd, Nou la, it says. We are ugly, but we are here. Like the modesty that is somewhat common in Haitian culture, this saying makes a deeper claim for poor Haitian women than maintaining beauty, be it skin deep or otherwise. For most of us, what is worth celebrating is the fact that we are here, that we against all the odds exist. To the women who might greet each other with this saying when they meet along the countryside, the very essence of life lies in survival. It is always worth reminding our sisters that we have lived yet another day to answer the roll call of an often painful and very difficult life.” -Edwidge Danticat-
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How are we today, sister?
-We are ugly, but we are here.
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Helmut Newton, David Bowie, Bedroom at the Kempinski Hotel, Berlin, 1983
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Helmut Newton, Andy Warhol, Paris, 1974
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Shoes and Eiffel tower by Frank Horvat
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“I
do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early
years, we had to grow and raise all of our food, even our animals. And I
remember in my early life, we didn’t even have electricity. So it was
very, very hard times then.”
Dolly Parton by Merry Alpern for Playboy Magazine, 1978