"I believe that beauty is a basic service."

-- Theaster Gates

#Believe Quotes #I Believe Quotes

“In the early 1980s, I got into a war with my management - they just kept on sueing me and I lost everything. So I had to go out on tour to make sure the electricity stayed on.”

Source : "Portrait of the artist: Meat Loaf, singer". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2010.
“What the genetic epistemology proposes is discovering the roots of the different varieties of knowledge, since its elementary forms, following to the next levels, including also the scientific knowledge.”
“Fear not! Stand your ground... the Lord himself will fight for you; you have only to keep still.”
“I've had moments where I realize my body isn't going to withstand many more seasons, but I am very satisfied with my career and I am trying not to look at retirement as a sad thing.”
“Each of us is tied, in some fashion, to the past. We are all part of a continuum.”

Source : "Five questions for Nikki Grimes". Interview With Horn Book, www.hbook.com. February 6, 2017.
“A Christian might drink only ginger ale at the tavern bar, but there he is already on the way to drinking beer and whiskey. The girl who attends a ball but never dances a step, will soon surrender her body to the lustful embrace of every casual male acquaintance as other dancers do.”
“Blame is safer than praise”
“The negro has suffered far more from the commission of this crime against the women of his race by white men than the white race has ever suffered through his crimes.”

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