"Is it the responsibility of the colored artist or the ethnic artist to create works that are designed to exist in opposition to a certain political structure?"

-- Kehinde Wiley

#Responsibility Quotes #Artist Quotes #Political Quotes

“I'm constantly trying to make myself better, to learn more. I didn't finish college, so I feel like I'm always having to prove myself. I don't want to feel like the smallest person in the room.”
“Failing to differentiate among employees â€” and holding on to bottom-tier performers â€” is actually the cruelest form of management there is.”
“UNNATURAL CAUSES tears back the veil to show the socio-economic and racial inequities in health as well as the public policies that underpin them. Should be required viewing.”
“Scientists have reaped rich rewards, they have sat high in government councils and have been blinded by the attractiveness of public life-all this because they happen to have been good killers.”
“I think when you work on fossils, and you realize that a species is there, and it's abundant for quite a long period of time, and then at some point it's no longer there - and so, when you look at that bigger picture, yes, you realize that either you change and adapt, or, as a species, you go extinct.”

Source : "Louise Leakey: Where Did Human Beings Originate?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. October 24, 2014.
“Those who think that metaphysics is just misunderstood grammar will react to my giving metaphysics some place or another in the system of knowledge.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“But I have a list of books that I want to read before I die, and whenever I get time to read something that isn't a script, I'll read something from that.”
“Everyone felt like they knew Ray Charles and in a way they did, because he was embodied by his music.”

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