"All cultural explorers. . . start off from specific roots which color their vision and define the allegiances of the work of art they produce."

-- Keorapetse Kgositsile

#Art Quotes #Color Quotes #Roots Quotes

“I believe that the development of language - of naming, categorization, conceptualization - destroys our ability to see as we age.”
“I'm in no rush to become extremely famous.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If I am hungry, that is a material problem; if someone else is hungry, that is a spiritual problem.”
“Throughout history there have been black people who have played mammies, all sorts of offensive images, who didn't mind doing it.”
“Being uncertain and scared and riddled with doubt some days isn't a sign of bad things to come. It's actually quite the opposite. After all, if great things weren't on the horizon, I don't think the enemy would be so bent on attacking us.”
“Nobody really knows who I am, where I came from, what's in my heart, why I believe in the things I believe, what I see behind the scenes and they don't see.”

Source : "Gobby, but without a Wookiee sidekick". www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2011.
“A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.”
“We teach girls shame; close your legs, cover yourself, we make them feel as though by being born female they're already guilty of something.”

Source : "We should all be feminists". TED Talks, www.ted.com. December 2012.

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