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“The white man's God cannot love our people or He would protect them. They seem to be orphans who can look nowhere for help. How then can we be brothers?”
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“I've spent my life alone in a room with a typewriter.”
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“The key to artistic photography is to work out your own thoughts, by yourselves. Imitation leads to certain disaster. New ideas are always antagonized. Do not mind that. If a thing is good it will survive.”
Source : Barbara L. Michaels, Gertrude Käsebier (1992). “Gertrude Käsebier: the photographer and her photographs”, Harry N Abrams Inc
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“I'm regularly asked, 'What's a good voice?' I often answer, 'One that I don't notice'. I would also add, one which makes me notice things about a spoken text”
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“No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.”
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“I suppose there are people who can pass up free guacamole, but they're either allergic to avocado or too joyless to live.”
Source : Frank Bruni (2009). “Born Round: A Story of Family, Food and a Ferocious Appetite”, p.166, Penguin
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“Sometimes it made him [Degas] furious that he could not find a chink in my armor, and there would be months when we just could not see each other, and then something I painted would bring us together again.”
Source : Mary Cassatt, Judith A. Barter, Erica E. Hirshler, Art Institute of Chicago (1998). “Mary Cassatt, modern woman”
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“You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you.- Desmond Tutu In the end, kids won't remember that fancy toy or game you bought for them, they will remember the time you spent with them.”
