"My artistic practice always involved diversity to the groups of people in which I would find camaraderie, friendship, colleagues, whereas I feel, to be honest, a lot of those circles were just completely white. I think that's something that's unstated or stated with bravado. That is not anywhere near part my experience, especially as a New Yorker."

-- Lorna Simpson

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Diversity Quotes

“And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts.”
“I'm in a period of growth and expansion. I'm taking long, hard looks at the world and what's happening in it, analyzing and thinking. I'm trying to become acquainted with the universe - with the part of it I occupy - and trying to settle, for myself, what my relationship with it is.”
“All Nature is linked together by invisible bonds and every organic creature, however low, however feeble, however dependent, is necessary to the well-being of some other among the myriad forms of life.”

Source : George Perkins Marsh (1864). “Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action”, p.109, New York : C. Scribner
“I know things are unbearable but in spite of that we have to bear them.”
“Iâ€™ve never agreed with the conventional wisdom that â€˜actors are great liars.â€™ If more people understood the acting process, the goals of good actors, the conventional wisdom would be â€˜actors are terrible liars,â€™ because only bad actors lie on the job. The good ones hate fakery and avoid manufactured emotion at all costs. Any script is enough of a lie anyway. (What experience does any actor have with flying a spacecraft? Killing someone?) Whatâ€™s called for, what actors are hired for, is to bring reality to the arbitrary.”
“Is not the very beginning of privilege, monopoly and industrial slavery this erecting of the ballot-box above the individual?”
“To be economical agriculture must be ecological.”
“The key to a good life is this: If you're not going to talk about something during the last hour of your life, then don't make it a top priority during your lifetime.”

Source : Richard Carlson, Kristine Carlson (2007). “An Hour to Live, an Hour to Love: The True Story of the Best Gift Ever Given”, Hyperion

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