"As a brown artist, I have mixed feelings about my relationship to art and my "responsibilities" post-Trump."

-- Vivek Shraya

#Art Quotes #Responsibility Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“It certainly is the duty of every true Christian, to esteem himself a stranger and pilgrim in this world; and as bound to use earthly blessings, not as means of satisfying lust or gratifying wantonness, but of supplying his absolute wants and necessities.”

Source : Johann Arndt (1868). “True Christianity: A Treatise on Sincere Repentance, True Faith, the Holy Walk of the True Christian, Etc”, p.51
“Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.”
“Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty under the guidance of his widowed grandmother.”
“in thoughts one keeps a reserve of hope, in spite of everything. You cannot say good-bye in imagination. That is something you can only do in actuality ...”
“It is a great truth, wonderful as it is undeniable, that all our happiness temporal, spiritual, and eternal consists in one thing; namely, in resigning ourselves to God, and in leaving ourselves with Him, to do with us and in us just as He pleases.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 297), 1895.
“For watching death, and above all, after death; not death in battle, but death after battle, brings one to certain indifferences that are also a form of death.”
“If you can't find an answer at the mall or the library, what does that say about the world?”
“There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.”

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