"I was 12 in 1989 during perestroika, when my mother found a program that sent me to Russia to study art in the forests outside of Leningrad."

-- Kehinde Wiley

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“That's what Hanukkah is about: trying to survive the darkness on the far-fetched hope there's still some life and light left in the universe. It's more than just a religious story. The days have been growing shorter, imperceptibly but inescapably darker.... Heading into the night of the winter solstice, every spiritual tradition has some kind of festival of light. We're all just whistling in the dark, hoping against hope that someone up there will see these little Hanukkah candles and get the hint.”

Source : Lawrence Kushner (2010). “I'm God, You're Not: Observations on Organized Religion & Other Disguises of the Ego”, p.103, Jewish Lights Publishing
“Learning that you have stamina is an excellent thing to know. If a project fails, I know I can pick myself up.”
“I absolutely do believe that we need to not be so myopic. We ought to throw open widely the windows on the world in order to learn more about it.”
“We can see, so we are always blind to things deeper than skin.”
“Life is to be enjoyed, not simply endured. Pleasure and goodness and joy support the pursuit of survival.”
“With intellectuals, moral thought is often less a tonic that quickens ethical action than a narcotic that deadens it.”
“The envious man thinks that if his neighbor breaks a leg, he will be able to walk better himself”
“Public radio has always been so powerless.”

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