"My peers at the time: you know, young black kids from off the streets of Harlem, having these conversations with me in my small, dirty little studio up in Harlem."

-- Kehinde Wiley

#Dirty Quotes #Kids Quotes #Black Quotes

“There are several things iconic about Sissy Hickey character - even just sounds. Like, "Awww." People love that sound! "Awww." I actually didn't want to do the role, because I didn't think I looked like a smoker - even though I used to be a smoker.”
“Where the army is, prices are high; when prices rise the wealth of the people is exhausted.”
“Life may not be fair, but when you have someone to believe in, life can be managed, and sometimes, even miraculous.”

Source : Julia Scheeres (2012). “Jesus Land: A Memoir”, p.348, Counterpoint Press
“Grace is inviting to the unrighteous and threatening to the self-righteous”
“I pride myself on being the type of artist who can work half in the R&B world and half in the pop world.”
“Johnny Mercer was my father's best friend and became mine as well. And Harold Arlen, whom I would call Uncle Harry, and Harry Warren: those were ones who I really became close to.”
“I guess I'm fascinated with motion because I find that whenever anything is moving, I have some feeling about it. It doesn't matter what kind of motion it is. A motion will always evoke some kind of reaction.”

Source : Walter Wykes (2006). “Three Plays of the Absurd”, p.122, Lulu.com
“It has seemed to me that literature, as I meant it, was embattled, that it was increasingly difficult to find writing doing what I thought literature should do - which was simply to push people into changing their ideas about the world, and to go further, to encourage us in the work of changing the world, to making it more just and more truly human.”

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