"I didn't choose painting, it chose me.I didn't have a talent,i just had genius"

-- Grace Hartigan

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“When human men hold an object that makes a powerful noise, or has moving parts, or spins around fast, or has a button they can push (which either screws or nails something) they become Gods in their own heads.They can do anything: they can eat through walls and bring buildings together to form mighty empires.They can build floating cities and flying tin cans.But they still can't make their own beds.”
“If we should have to fight, we should be prepared to do so from the neck up instead of from the neck down.”
“There's a few scholars that object to how the italicized sections suggest that Native people are to take some part in the blame for how colonization occurred. But I say, "Yes they are." Not nearly as much blame as the colonizers, of course. But we are not just victims. I hate this idea that we are all just victimized and oppressed and etcetera etcetera. It's dehumanizing in its own way.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“What does a woman want? More.”
“You like that analogy? That was pretty good?”
“I guess even when you can see everything, some things will always be a surprise.”

Source : Robin Benway (2010). “The Extraordinary Secrets of April, May, & June”, p.175, Penguin
“I think Saudi Arabia often finances radical Islam and the teaching of hatred to the West and hatred of Americans. I think it is important that we know that. It's important that we know that there is a threat within and a threat without. I think we can stop it with more aggressive use of actual constitutional tools.”
“This is not something that happens far away to people that we don't know. Global warming is something that happens to all of us, all at once.”

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