"My mother's from Texas. Small town outside of Waco called Downsville. And my father's from Nigeria. And so I guess I'm properly African-American."

-- Kehinde Wiley

#Mother Quotes #Father Quotes #Texas Quotes

“The caterpillar dies so the butterfly could be born. And, yet, the caterpillar lives in the butterfly and they are but one. So, when I die, it will be that I have been transformed from the caterpillar of earth to the butterfly of the universe.”
“Donald Beardslee is set for execution this week in California. His crimes were about twenty years ago, but it will be the first execution in California in quite some time.”
“Fat men get knocked over by buses no earlier, nor later, than thin men. And I, for one, have buried most of my thin friends.”

Source : Toledo Blade, August 20, 1978.
“Every small boy wanted to be a steam engine driver when they grew up in the old days, including me. There's something very special about them - the noise, the smell, the steam coming out everywhere.”
“I hadnâ€™t realized that music could unlock things in you, could transport you to somewhere even the composer hadnâ€™t predicted. It left an imprint in the air around you, as if you carried its remnants with you when you went.”
“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”
“It's good to be the king.”
“It's important for me to not historicize. I work to diffuse the issue of identity and to intensify identification. You have to lose your authority in the making of a film to achieve this. The film is about me being absolutely dislocated. I focus on the very personal to arrive at the very political.”

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