Kerry James Marshall Quotes

In Western Catholicism, darkness was evil. In the colonial and imperial context, dark skin was always weak, powerless, subjugated. If you see these images all the time, they become commonplace, and they no longer become a spectacular or sensational thing.

Kerry James Marshall

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 17, 1955

Topics

TimeDarknessEvilYouDarkSkin

A founder is the emotional energy aorta of a company. The energy that emanates from a founder attracts people and capital to the endeavor. When that energy goes away, it can feel impossible to do the job.

Andy Dunn

JobPeopleImpossibleEnergyFeel

To the Kenyan families, school doesn't really matter because none of them are going on to college. Almost all of drop out of school and so, they're spending their time learning things that are important to them.

Robert Sternberg

LearningTimeSchoolCollegeMatter

I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there.

Robert Jay Lifton

ChildhoodNew YorkBrooklynBornNew

Whitehead reacted strongly against the idea of God as a cosmic tyrant, one who brings about everything.

John Polkinghorne

GodEverythingAgainstIdeaTyrant

If I'm working as an engineer for another band, the responsibility for brilliance pretty much rests on their shoulders. I think I'm pretty good, but I'm not good enough to turn a trout into a sausage, or the other way around.

Steve Albini

GoodResponsibilityNot Good Enough

I don't pull punches at all, and I write my material for adults. But if kids like it, they can come watch it. I'll never change anything about what I do for anyone. I kind of think that's why kids like me. If you're a teenager, and there's someone onstage talking to you like an adult, that's good.

Trixie Mattel

ChangeGoodMeThinkTalkingYou

There have been competitions where I got on the line and psyched myself out before I even let myself compete. I was thinking about the other competitors and not giving myself a fair chance. I had to shift to thinking, 'Just focus on yourself and doing what your coach has taught you to do.'

Tori Bowie

MyselfFocusYourselfChanceGiving

I've always said I would want to be a funeral director if I wasn't an actor.

Torrey DeVitto

SaidWantActorDirectorAlways

I get a little cranky with the whole business about kids not having attention spans. This reminds me of the usual business of thinking that the next generation is hopeless. Every generation has said that about every younger generation.

Robin McKinley

BusinessMeThinkingGenerationSaid

A lot of the jobs I had revolved around metal fabrication and creating and building and maintaining equipment.

Mike Schultz

BuildingCreatingMetalEquipment

When you're younger, you want to project an image of yourself through your work, but now, I just want to make something honest.

Miguel Sapochnik

WorkYourselfYouNowWantImage

That was the best ice cream soda I ever tasted.

Lou Costello

BestIceIce CreamSodaCreamEver

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