"At age 20 I went to go find my father in Nigeria. And after much toil, I finally figured out exactly where he was. And there's something about seeing your father for the first time - my mother destroyed all pictures of him."

-- Kehinde Wiley

#Mother Quotes #Father Quotes #Age Quotes

“When I was at school at Paris, I had special lessons from Mademoiselle Antoine, an actress at the Comedie Francaise, and I was taken to every sort of play. I felt very grand.”
“Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain.”
“I don't remember my life before I had children.”
“The three toughest fighters I ever fought were Sugar Ray Robinson, Sugar Ray Robinson and Sugar Ray Robinson. I fought Sugar so many times, I'm surprised I'm not diabetic.”

Source : "Jake LaMotta - a life in pictures" by Daffydd Bynon, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2017.
“If a senator or congressman notices 25 phone calls, on any issue, on any given day, it is noted.”
“If my heart is overwhelmed and I cannot hear your voice, I hold on to what is true. I will believe.”
“I'm really interested in the minutiae of different tones and what that explains - how people's backgrounds are reflected in minute details of how they interact. It's true that I'm hypersensitive to all that. Writing is acting in the sense that you're imagining and inhabiting another. In the book I was trying to get at the root of what true acting is.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I gave you seven children, but now you want to give them back.”

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