"You should always respect what you are and your culture because if your art is going to mean anything, that is where it comes from."

-- Romare Bearden

#Respect Quotes #Art Quotes #Mean Quotes

“That's just how I see things. I think things that are the most dramatic or tragic can also look the most ridiculous and funny. That's part of being human.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I'm not married, nor do I want to be. I'm the loving kind but not the marrying kind, though I am romantic.”

Source : "Aunjanue Ellis: Risk Taker". Essence.com Interview, www.essence.com. December 16, 2009.
“Though plunged in ills and exercised in care, Yet never let the noble mind despair.”
“If you want to get an education in how to get a story and how to survive, then get a street reporter job in New York City.”
“I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.”
“It is absolutely vital to preserve a space where the mind, by means of poetic thinking, can move in a free, even anarchic, way. It must do so, in order to find deep truths that would not be otherwise available, ones that we desperately need. Anyone who writes poetry knows what I'm talking about, because they've had the experience of thinking this way.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I am fevered with the sunset, I am fretful with the bay, For the wander-thirst is on me And my soul is in Cathay.”

Source : Avi, Karen Cushman, Henry Wysham Lanier, Peg C. Schwabel, Cynthia Corzo (2000). “The true confessions of Charlotte Doyle and related readings”
“Style is about fun. True style is not about having a closet full of expensive and beautiful things - it is instead about knowing when, where, and how to utilize your collection.”

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