"Everything may be expressed with almost nothing at all"

-- Jean Fautrier

“Not in the history of mankind has the government ever created a job.”

Source : "10 New Rules For Republicans" by Ben Cohen, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 11, 2009.
“The past has been there all along, reminding us: This time--maybe, hopefully, against all odds, we will get it right.”

Source : Leslie T. Chang (2010). “Factory Girls: Voices from the Heart of Modern China”, p.260, Pan Macmillan
“As nations we should also commit afresh to righting past wrongs. In Australia we began this recently with the first Australians - the oldest continuing culture in human history. On behalf of the Australian Parliament, this year I offered an apology to indigenous Australians for the wrongs they had suffered in the past.”
“Racial justice is key to a compassionate, inclusive, dynamic society.”
“For daughters of the new American billionaires of the 19th century, it was the ultimate deal: marriage to a cash-strapped British Aristocrat in return for a title and social status. But money didn't always buy them happiness.”
“Most of us have collections of sayings we live by. . . . Whenever words fly up at me from the printed page as I read, I intercept them instantly, knowing they are for me. I turn them over carefully in my mind and cling to them hard.”
“I am an open book, literally. I don't mind if people know way too much about me.”
“There is a political and racial context behind everything that I do. Not always because I design it that way, or because I want it that way, but rather because it's just the way people look at the work of an African-American artist in this country.”

Source : "'I try to create a place of disorientation' - interview with Kehinde Wiley". Interview With Anna Savitskaya, artdependence.com. February 16, 2015.

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