"I've met others [people] who simply responded to me, "You're Kehinde Wiley. I know your work. I saw it at the Brooklyn Museum [Brooklyn, NY] And I'd be honored to be in your work.""

-- Kehinde Wiley

#Museums Quotes #People Quotes #Brooklyn Quotes

“If you know you don't have a win, then there's no use for you being in the game.”
“Frost is but slender weeks away, Tonight the sunset glow will stay, Swing to the north and burn up higher And Northern Lights wall earth with fire. Nothing is lost yet, nothing broken, And yet the cold blue word is spoken: Say goodbye to the sun. The days of love and leaves are done.”
“Today is just another normal day full of miracles, gifts, and opportunities.”
“In any city or town, you can find a good, rocking Italian place. The most unhealthy thing on the menu? I'll have two of those!”
“The body you're given, the mind you're given, the morality and the hang ups you're given, they're yours. Deal with it.”
“There are no rules or certain methods. I usually start with the guitar or piano and sing melodies over the chords. The lyrics seem to be born out of that, and the fact that it's still a mystery to me is my favorite part.”

Source : Source: music-illuminati.com
“A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.”

Source : Naomi Wolf (2013). “The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women”, p.187, Random House
“All my jobs have been with food in one way or another since 1948. My parents were in the hotel business, and I just loved the warm hearted people who worked so hard with such good humor.”

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