"This is something that, as artists, we constantly deal with-throwing away the past, slaying the father, and creating the new. This desire to throw away the old rules."

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

Kehinde Wiley

#Father Quotes #Artist Quotes #Past Quotes

“No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.”
“I believe the gay community is a good group of people but with groups like NAMBLA [a pedophile group] riding on their coattails.”
“"Historians of every generation, I believe, unless they are pure antiquarians, see history against the background - the controlling background - of current events. They call upon it to explain the problems of their own time, to give to those problems a philosophical context, a continuum in which they may be reduced to proportion and perhaps made intelligible."”
“With childhood comes a brief grace period of ignorant bliss -- when you're not aware of the pain around you. That is the most special, truly unique time. It is the core of adult lament.”
“You put the Devil on the other side, and I will come to fight.”
“Cardinal arithmetic will be quite important for us, so we spend some time on it. Since, however, it tends to be trivial, we shall not need to spend much of this time on proofs.”
“And just as it is with all proper grannies, she ordered me into my pink bunny jammies.”
“Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?”

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