"Im not really about blackness, per se, but about blackness and whiteness, and what they mean and how they interact with one another and what power is all about."

-- Kara Walker

#Mean Quotes #Whiteness Quotes #Blackness Quotes

“The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.”
“Money solves a lot of problems and when you don't have money, you've got to do all this other stuff to solve the problem. It's very hard. I would love to have not necessarily a studio because then you lose so much control but I would love to have decent independent financing where I have the freedom and I have the money to do it right, to not be asking people to work for free or to work for half the rate and not ask those favors again and again because I now owe all these people back who've helped me.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I respect people who feel things passionately. I do. But when someone is a judge, that is not what they should bring to the bench. It is not really passion, except in rare instances, that serves the bench well. It is, rather, an ability to understand the law and follow it.”
“Genuine spiritual knowledge lies not in wonderful and mysterious thoughts but in actual spiritual experience through union of the believer's life with truth.”
“There's no rhyme or reason to how I dress.”
“Performers like Tommy Cooper, who are always getting things wrong, are much more endearing than comedians who are sassy and smart.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“But what we're really trapped by is perceptions. You think you need to lose weight for someone to love you. I think if I gain weight, no one will love me. What we really need is to just stop thinking of ourselves as bodies and start thinking of ourselves as people.”
“He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable. Now he's miserable and depressed.”

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