"I love the city. I love the energy of New York and what happens here. But I'm very happy I don't live in the city on a daily basis, because I really do spend a great deal of my time, when I'm not on the road, in my studio - everyday, everyday, everyday."

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Source : "Carrie Mae Weems and a shifting stage". Interview with Tess Mayer, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 4, 2016.

Carrie Mae Weems

#New York Quotes #Cities Quotes #Everyday Quotes

“I've never contended that I had a really horrible life.”
“It is my mission to ensure that HIV-positive children and children with AIDS are no longer overlooked and that they begin receiving the treatment and care they deserve.”
“That, in essence, is the catastrophe of suicide for those who survive: not only the loss of someone, but the loss of the chance to persuade that person to act differently, the loss of the chance to connect.”
“I believe, as followers of Christ, we are commanded to reach out to the least of these in the name of Jesus and show them they matter a great deal to God, who sacrificed His only Son to reach them with His love.”
“Do your job brilliantly and the cream will rise to the top.”
“Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.”
“When shame is missing from corporate life, society, quickly becomes uncivilized.”
“The most rigid structures, the most impervious to change, will collapse first.”

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