"There are two ways. One is to be a puppet, follow the culture, and do whatever they want. That was mentally disturbing to me, and still is. And the other way is to go out. I knew there would be problems from my family, and also from my environment. But I thought that physical pain would be better than the mental pain. And I started working as an artist."

Source : "Afghan graffiti artist risks her life to challenge the burqa under the Taliban". Interview with Katie Booth, womenintheworld.com. May 21, 2015.

Malina Suliman

#Pain Quotes #Artist Quotes #Two Quotes

“Is there some truth out there? Yes. Is there a lot of falsehood out there? Absolutely.”

Source : "Countdown with Keith Olbermann", www.nbcnews.com. February 24, 2005.
“My heroes are people like Philip Levine, who is simply like a god to me, as a writer. And he is a very good man, too.”

Source : Source: www.identitytheory.com
“The tubular steel chair is surely rational from technical and constructive points of view. It is light, suitable for mass production, and so on. But steel and chromium surfaces are not satisfactory from the human point of view.”
“I asked her if I was black or white. She replied "You are a human being. Educate yourself or you'll be a nobody!”

Source : James McBride (2012). “The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother”, p.70, A&C Black
“It's just kind of, we do a lot of songs when it's an artist of that magnitude, like BeyoncÃ©. You're not sending her one song; you're sending her 20 ideas.”
“Walesa was a national hero, a true icon. The vast majority of Poles didn't believe a word the authorities said. They took everything the official media said about Walesa to be a manipulation by the Communist authorities.”
“You have to trust your body to take care of you.”
“I have gone through the most terrible affair that could possibly happen; only imagine, my shadow has gone mad; I suppose such a poor, shallow brain, could not bear much; he fancies that he has become a real man, and that I am his shadow.”

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