"I was recently in Israel doing my work and casting for models in the streets of Haifa and Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, meeting young Israelis and Palestinians and Falasha, Ethiopian Jews who had migrated to Israel in the '70s. They're obsessed with Bob Marley. They're obsessed with Kanye West. They're obsessed with resistance culture, people who find that they're not necessarily comfortable in their own personal and national skin."

-- Kehinde Wiley

#Israel Quotes #People Quotes #Skins Quotes

“For a long time, I saw writing prose as chewing rocks compared to the velocities of writing poetry.”

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“One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.”
“I like to play different ranges. When you get really deeply involved in the emotional parts, I enjoy that just as much as the fun and laughter.”
“Donald Trump can have some advantage in negotiations. NAFTA is high on his agenda.But if he goes too far, I think the president of Mexico Enrique Pena and the Mexicans will decide they would just as soon get out of NAFTA, and we don't want that either. There may need to be some changes, but to re-imagine the entire world we have had an international order. It's not perfect, but for 70 years, it has kept Europe whole and free and safe, and we need to keep it in place.”
“A lot of times people's main motives and plan in life is to hurt as many people as they can, but I think there's enough good people that help make the world a good place.”
“At times we feel something is going to pierce the silence we are living in; after a while we realize it's the silence.”

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“This is one step along the road of moving away from a dollar peg and moving to a floating basket. This implies China will be accumulating dollars at a slower rate.”
“The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake. You can't learn anything from being perfect.”

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