The tattoo attracts and also repels precisely because it is differ

The tattoo attracts and also repels precisely because it is different. – Margo DeMello, Bodies of Inscription: A Cultural History of the Modern Tattoo Co

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There is no “underground” community, no dark den of drunken sailors initiating themselves into manhood via cheap, ill-conceived exercises in bodily perforation; it’s just a group of people who delight in using their bodies as billboards. – Joanne McCubrey, “Walking Art: Tattoos,” Mountain Democrat Weekend magazine, 199

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Tattooing is about personalizing the body, making it a true home and fit temple for the spirit that dwells inside it…. Tattooing therefore, is a way of keeping the spiritual and material needs of my body in balance. – Michelle Delio

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And what is it, thought I, after all! It’s only his outside; a man can be honest in any sort of skin. – Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

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The world is divided into two kinds of people: those who have tattoos, and those who are afraid of people with tattoos. – Author Unknown

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