Mickalene Thomas Quotes

My artistic decision to cast my mother's objects into bronze moves beyond the notions of memorializing her. I've been fascinated for some time with the idea of monumentality and what it means to memorialize. Both of these notions are relevant historically, artistically, and culturally.

Mickalene Thomas

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 28, 1971

Topics

MotherTimeDecisionBeyondHer

We've lost sight of our role in the region and our view of our colleagues in the region.

John Hewson

ColleaguesViewLostSightRoleOur

The best recommendation I can have is my own talents, and the fruits of my own labors, and what others will not do for me, I will try and do for myself.

John James Audubon

MyselfBestMeI CanMy OwnTry

When I got into professional wrestling, I started, and I starved for two years, and I finally got some breaks. And then I got the biggest break, and I made the most of it and took wresting to its highest level ever.

Stone Cold Steve Austin

ProfessionalWrestlingTwoBreakGot

Of course laws will not eliminate prejudice from the hearts of human beings. But that is no reason to allow prejudice to continue to be enshrined in our laws - to perpetuate injustice through inaction.

Shirley Chisholm

InjusticeInactionWillPrejudice

A lot of my reading over the next few months will be the works of Hans Christian Andersen - I have been appointed an ambassador for the bicentenary celebrations of his birth next year.

Roger Moore

ReadingChristianYearWillBirth

If someone asks me a question, that says they appreciate what I do and that's nice. And I know what it was like when I was a kid to want to interact with a top player.

Mary Pierce

MeAppreciateSomeoneKnowNiceTop

I come from an enormous and very close family. I have over a dozen aunts and uncles in Pakistan, dozens of cousins. I have many close friends. I have received so much love in Lahore that the city always pulls me.

Mohsin Hamid

FamilyLoveCityMeFriendsCousins

If everything always went perfectly, I would feel like, When is the ball going to drop? Because good things don't always last. Maybe I'm a pessimistic person. When something just seems too good, I can't believe it.

January Jones

GoodGood ThingsBelieveFeelPerson

I just can't read, the way other people can, these tediously elaborated books.

David Shields

PeopleWayJustBooksReadOther

My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science teacher, and since he was my hero, I wanted to follow in his footsteps and become a teacher.

David Soul

FatherScienceTeacherHistoryHero

Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.

William Hazlitt

LoveFearOthersThroughGain

I think everybody, from every end of the market place, from young through to old, wants to be fashionable. Everybody. Women want to feel like they're wearing the right merchandise, regardless of age. They want to be trendy.

Philip Green

WomenAgeThinkEndFeelPlace

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