"Dogs will give you unconditional love until the day they die. Cats will make you pay for every mistake you've ever made since the day you were born."

“God created black people and black people created style.”

Source : George C. Wolfe (1988). “The Colored Museum”, p.14, Grove Press

“Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.”

Source : Quoted in Evan Esar, A Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (1949)

“Scratch an altruist and watch a hypocrite bleed.”

“Every true artist has been inspired more by the beauty of lines and color and the relationships between them than by the concrete subject of the picture.”

“As you discover what strength you can draw from your community in this world from which it stands apart, look outward as well as inward. Build bridges instead of walls.”

Source : Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, p.164, Vintage

“He whose genius appears deepest and truest excels his fellows in nothing save the knack of expression; he throws out occasionally a lucky hint at truths of which every human soul is profoundly though unutterably conscious.”

“It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.”

“A brave nation fights because it must ; a cowardly nation fights because it can.”