"I'm trying to give people an idea of what black looks like and what white looks like before I introduce them to gray."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Gish Jen

#Ideas Quotes #White Quotes #People Quotes

“Eating is the secret to good cooking.”
“Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.”
“When you get real old, honey, you realize there are certain things that just don't matter anymore. You lay it all on the table. There's a saying, 'Only little children and old folks tell the truth.'”

Source : Sarah Louise Delany, Annie Elizabeth Delany, Amy Hill Hearth (1993). “Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years”, p.179, Kodansha America
“I live at home and, if I want to start work at 11 o'clock, I can.”
“To me we're living in this very profoundly non-idealogical time where the real divide is between people who have power and people who either don't have power or feel that they don't have power.”
“My brother had a mustache, and when my brother had a mustache, it was cool. When I had a mustache, everyone just assumed I'm an immigrant and I don't speak English, which is fascinating. It was a fascinating thing to discover how I looked versus my brother with a mustache.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Color helps to express light, not the physical phenomenon, but the only light that really exists, that in the artist's brain.”
“I didn't want the headache of having a publisher reviewing everything I wrote in advance.”

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