"In some way they are all self-portraits, but I think I know what you mean by asking this - I would say, it is too idealistic to paint yourself."

-- Kehinde Wiley

#Mean Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Self Quotes

“I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.”
“O Allah! If I cannot always understand Your wisdom in what You decree, please let me at least have the insight to accept it and be content with it.”
“I consider my teenage years as being desperately unhappy.”

Source : "Disney Kids Have Been Getting Naked and Taking Drugs for Over Half a Century, and Here's the Proof!". Interview, moviepilot.com. January 29, 2015.
“War is indefensible on every grounds, military and economic and diplomatic and also on moral.”
“Imperialism creates the illusion of wealth as far as the masses are concerned. It usually serves to hide the fact that the ruling classes are gobbling up the natural resources of the home territory in an improvident manner and are otherwise utilizing the national wealth largely for their own purposes. Eventually the general public is called upon to pay for all of this, frequently after the military machine can no longer maintain external aggression.”
“The heart is not so constituted, and the only way to dispossess it of an old affection is by the expulsive power of a new one”

Source : Thomas Chalmers (1861). “The Expulsive Power of a New Affection. A sermon”, p.11
“Laughter is God's blessing.”
“Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not.”

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