"What's interesting about young black American artists within the twentieth century, and increasingly within the twenty-first as well, is that there's this expectation of a political corrective that demands that the artist fixes the ills of the world."

-- Kehinde Wiley

#Artist Quotes #Interesting Quotes #Expectations Quotes

“Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.”
“Have you ever noticed that Jesus is never recorded as taking a holiday? He retired for the purposes of his mission, not from it. He was never destroyed by his work; he was always on top of it. He moved among people as the master of every situation. He was busier than anyone; the multitudes were always at him, yet he had time, for everything and everyone. He was never hurried, or harassed, or too busy. He had complete supremacy over time; he never let it dictate to him. He talked of my time; my hour. He knew exactly when the moment had come for doing something and when it had not.”
“I want to build a treehouse village connected by bridges in the woods by my house so my friends have a place to stay.”

Source : Source: itcouldbemainstream.blogspot.com
“If he wins seven golds and ties what I did, then it would be like I was the first man on the moon and he became the second. If he wins more than seven, then he becomes the first man on Mars. We'd both be unique.”
“When we go in the ring we know we're going to get hit. We know we're not the ballet people. But if you go in there and have doubt in your mind that you're afraid to get hit, forget it.”

Source : "Archives: Scoop Interview with Kostya Tszyu". Interview with Scoop Malinowski, ringobserver.com. October 9, 2017.
“Dear Anna, we will live in a home with no walls, so that everywhere we go will be our home.”
“If I'm in love I want to get married. That's how stupid I am.”
“If I look to see what I ever did that, for all I now know, some other man might not have done, I am utterly unable to discover the certainly unique deed.”

Source : Josiah Royce (1952). “The Religious Philosophy of Josiah Royce; Edited, with an Introductory Essay, by Stuart Gerry Brown”

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