"I'm very careful not to have ideas, because they're inaccurate."

-- Agnes Martin

#Ideas Quotes #Careful Quotes

“The farther a man knows himself to be free from perfection, the nearer he is to it.”
“I think Edith Evans is the most marvelous actress in the world and she can look beautiful. People who aren't beautiful can look beautiful. She can look as beautiful as Diana Cooper, who was the most beautiful woman in the world.”
“If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything.”

Source : Claude McKay, Gene Andrew Jarrett (1937). “A Long Way from Home”, p.82, Rutgers University Press
“How could I feel so miserable in the midst of such splendor? The question flashed through me all at once, not waiting for words to express it. The answer came more slowly: No one makes you angry. Anger, like love, is something you choose. Stunned, I sat down in the middle of the field I'd been walking through. I knew I needed to look within myself, let go of my anger and have a quiet talk with God.”
“Nothing, perhaps, is strange, once you have accepted life itself, the great strange business which includes all lesser strangeness.”
“When it comes to my family I never quite know how protective I have to be, or what I should or shouldn't say.”
“When the Kerner Commission told white America what black America has always known, that prejudice and hatred built the nationâ€™s slums, maintains them and profits by them, white America could not believe it. But it is true. Unless we start to fight and defeat the enemies in our own country, poverty and racism, and make our talk of equality and opportunity ring true, we are exposed in the eyes of the world as hypocrites when we talk about making people free - (Chapter 9).”
“Leadership is hard to train on.”

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