Kerry James Marshall Quotes

The National Gallery is the place that means to represent everything that's good and important in art and show what it believes everyone who is a citizen should recognize and engage.

Kerry James Marshall

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

GoodArtPlaceImportantCitizen

When I started writing and illustrating, I knew little of classic children's literature. My stories came from real life, from my concerns about what was happening in the world.

Michael Foreman

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Concentrate, play your game, and don't be afraid to win.

Amy Alcott

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Art is doing. Art deals directly with life.

Ruth Asawa

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At 90, I'm still working a couple of dates a month. My mind is very sharp on the stage, so why not? This may sound corny, but I do it because people - young and old - still come to see me, and they're very enthusiastic about my work. They treat me like the Godfather.

Don Rickles

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I've got a puncher's chance against anybody.

Chuck Liddell

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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

Aristophanes

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Graham's legacy is not as a maverick or a trailblazer. It is the legacy of a man who used Jesus as a tool to placate the masses so that the status quo of conservative white America could remain firmly in place.

Anthea Butler

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What I love about Brooklyn is there are more wonderful little joints than anywhere.

Arthur Schwartz

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Actors are dumb when they get insecure of their co-stars. A lot of actors do. When there is a good actor, they're like, 'Oh, he's eating up the part.' That's stupid.

Ali Fazal

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Party leaders aren't responsible for every candidate's gaffe.

William M. Daley

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The chance of any species reaching and then surviving on an island as distant as one of the Hawaiian chain is infinitesimal, but despite the extraordinary odds, plants and seeds found their way ashore, carried by the tide or blown by trade winds, inside birds or in their feathers, in the branches of trees and in the jetsam of sunken ships.

Susanna Moore

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Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves.

Paul Theroux

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