"I have been painting white people for much longer in my life than I have done for colored people."

-- Kehinde Wiley

#White Quotes #People Quotes #Done Quotes

“Young women that would not be thought coquettish, and old men that would not be ridiculous, should never talk of love, as if they had any concern in it.”
“Would you exalt your profession, exalt those who labor with you...increase the salaries of the women engaged in the noble work of educating our future presidents, senators and congressmen.”
“We exist within the question of God.”
“But there were worse things than disappointment, and I'd lived through several of them already.”

Source : R. J. Anderson (2011). “Ultraviolet”, p.216, Carolrhoda Lab
“Like most dancers, I love lip stains! We hate gloss because hair gets stuck in it.”
“Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.”
“I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching”
“We ourselves, though we're guilty of every sin, are not just a work of God: we're image. Yet we have cut ourselves off from our Creator in both soul and body. Did we get eyes to serve lust, the tongue to speak evil, ears to hear evil, a throat for gluttony, a stomach to be gluttony's ally, hands to do violence, genitals for unchaste excesses, feet for an erring life? Was the soul put in the body to think up traps, fraud, and injustice? I don't think so.”

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