"Art is so personal. I'm very comforted by the fact that certain movies that I love, other people hate. Certain books that I love, other people hate. You can't please everybody."

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Source : Source: www.identitytheory.com

Ethan Canin

#Art Quotes #Hate Quotes #Book Quotes

“You should always respect what you are and your culture because if your art is going to mean anything, that is where it comes from.”
“Being judgmental is cheap. Any fool can do it.”
“I have no intention of being a potted plant, and just getting watered every so often.”
“I'm slammed with an identity that can no longer say a word; mute with responsibility,”
“I know what I don't want. I don't want to live through somebody else. To do what others expect me to do, be what they think I should be. I have to make my own choices, my own decisions. I have to control my own life, at least as much as any of us can”

Source : Kay Hooper (2016). “What Dreams May Come”, p.47, Loveswept
“Trying to understand women is a tall order period.”
“If you teach the Negro that he has accomplished as much good as any other race he will aspire to equality and justice without regard to race. Such an effort would upset the program of the oppressor in Africa and America. Play up before the Negro, then, his crimes and shortcomings. Let him learn to admire the Hebrew, the Greek, the Latin and the Teuton. Lead the Negro to detest the man of African blood--to hate himself.”

Source : Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.192, Book Tree
“Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.”

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