"I feel sometimes constrained by the expectation that the work should be solely political. I try to create a type of work that is at the service of my own set of criteria, which have to do with beauty and a type of utopia that in some ways speaks to the culture I'm located in."

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Source : Interview with M.I.A., www.interviewmagazine.com. November 19, 2008.

Kehinde Wiley

#Expectations Quotes #Political Quotes #Trying Quotes

“False praise is worse than no praise.”
“The reality is, we can change. We can change ourselves. We can change our minds. We can change our hearts... and therefore the Universe changes.”

Source : "Finding Happiness a "Big H"". Project Happiness Interview, projecthappiness.com. November 9, 2012.
“I worked with him for years. I still think Kanye [West] is one of the most important people in music in the last ten years.”

Source : Source: www.gq.com
“Loneliness, tenderness, high society, notoriety, you fight for the throne and you travel alone.”
“When he asked my grandmother if she would mind being poor, she said she would be happy just to have her daughter and himself: 'If you have love, even plain water is sweet.”

Source : Jung Chang (2008). “Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China”, p.38, Simon and Schuster
“a loss of sensibility follows a loss of innocence, at once a penalty and a compensation.”
“Just as a very little fresh water is blown away by a storm of wind and dust, in like manner the good deeds, that we think we do in this life, are overwhelmed by the multitude of evils.”
“On Capitol Hill, the Republican-controlled House voted mostly along party lines tonight to pass President Bush's federal budget blueprint. This includes his big tax cut plan, partly bankrolled, critics say, through cuts in many federal aid programs for children and education.”

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