"The silhouette says a lot with very little information, but that's also what the stereotype does."

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Source : "CULTURE ZOHN: Two Artists Transform Anger Into Things of Beauty" by Patricia Zohn, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 29, 2008.

Kara Walker

#Doe Quotes #Littles Quotes #Information Quotes

“No evil can result from its [slavery's] inhibition more pernicious than its toleration.”
“Of higher value than any one leader is the cause.”
“Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing. This focus and intensity helps to eliminate wasted effort and distractions. Most companies die from indigestion rather than starvation, i.e., companies suffer from doing too many things at the same time rather than doing too few things very well.”
“One of the ways that people avoid taking responsibility for their role in their own pain is what I call the BPs - blame and projection.”
“Arrogance always destroys opportunity”
“There is simply no dignified way for a woman to live alone. Oh, she can get along financially perhaps (though not nearly as well as a man), but emotionally she is never left in peace. Her friends, her family, her fellow workers never let her forget that her husbandlessness, her childlessness - her selfishness, in short - is a reproach to the American way of life.”
“I am more afraid of alcohol than of all the bullets of the enemy.”
“Growing up in the sport, I've been able to separate what happens on the track with what happens away from the track. That track is totally different. I'm not the same person when I put that helmet one.”

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