"I paved the way for a lot of white artists now that donâ€™t have to deal with the stigma of being a white artist. I donâ€™t think that people would be as open for non-African American artists like that if it I didnâ€™t take a lot of the slack for them."

-- Jon B.

#Artist Quotes #Thinking Quotes #White Quotes

“Life is a journey. Part of that journey is not just using your talents, but trying to decide what is your gift and then directing your talents to support your gift so you can soar to new heights.”
“in extreme circumstances I think embarrassment is a luxury.”
“It's men you should be afraid of, not monsters,”

Source : Niccolò Ammaniti (2003). “I'm Not Scared”, p.33, Canongate Books
“Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.”
“Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know. For me, the spark that turns an acquaintance into a friend has usually been kindled by some shared enthusiasm . . . At fifteen, I couldn't say two words about the weather or how I was doing, but I could come up with a paragraph or two about the album Charlie Parker with Strings. In high school, I made the first real friends I ever had because one of them came up to me at lunch and started talking about the Cure.”
“My love for him was so exquisitely pure that if we all were capable of giving and receiving such a beautiful gift the world would be a far more brilliant place; I think we'd all be poets.”
“I had people in 'Entertainment Weekly' talking about how they wanted to throttle me because they thought I was too disgustingly cute, as if that were my fault, you know, as if that was my fault, not the fault of directors and producers and such.”
“Marriage is a desperate thing.”

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