"I think there's something important in going against the grain, and perhaps finding value in things that aren't necessarily institutionally recognized."

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Source : Interview with M.I.A., www.interviewmagazine.com. November 19, 2008.

Kehinde Wiley

#Thinking Quotes #Important Quotes #Grain Quotes

“I play patterns. I'll make up a pattern and just play it.”
“Despite the large number of mergers, and the growth in the absolute size of many corporations, the dominant tendency in the American economy at the beginning of [the 20th] century was toward growing competition. [And] competition was unacceptableâ€¦It was not the existence of monopoly that caused the federal government to intervene in the economy, but the lack of it.”

Source : "Triumph of Conservatism". Book by Gabriel Kolko, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1963.
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.”

Source : Walt Whitman, The Secret Libraries (2016). “Walt Whitman Quotes... Vol. 20: Motivational and Inspirational Life Quotes by Walt Whitman”
“The devil has been defeated, stop trying to defeat him. What we have left is the fight of faith, and it's a good fight!”
“Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.”
“My mother felt it was time that I had some parental control, so I went off to America and went to New York.”
“First we build the tools, then they build us.”
“Taiwan is a major economy.”

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