Kerry James Marshall Quotes

Working from live models is too much trouble; it takes too much time.

Kerry James Marshall

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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The reason there's not a dictatorship in Chile and that there's a democracy in South Africa and Portugal today - and that Haiti has a nascent democracy - is that the world community as a whole felt outraged. This is the reason Milosevic sits in a jail in The Hague. It's because the world has said, 'Enough.'

Joe Garcia

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I had to get used to seeing Samantha Bee around. I had to get used to seeing Jon, like, getting a bagel, and to John Oliver, and all these people whom I had seen on TV. Colbert would sometimes drop by. I had to get used to being a part of this multiple-Emmy-winning machine and being this 22-year-old black girl who was really green.

Jessica Williams

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But when I went to Hiroshima and began to study or just listen to people's descriptions of their work, it was quite clear they were talking about death all the time, about people dying all around them, about their own fear of death.

Robert Jay Lifton

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No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

Max Beerbohm

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I've never been derogatory towards taxi drivers.

Travis Kalanick

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Marriage should be viewed as an institution ordained by God and should be out of the control of the state.

Tony Campolo

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As a writer, I'm convinced that encouraging children to write fiction, to hook into that marvelous machine called the imagination, has to be good for everyone.

Rodman Philbrick

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Art in the classroom not only spurs creativity, it also inspires learning.

Mickey Hart

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Instagram influencers project a specific, highly crafted image of perfection - one that is largely white, thin, and psychologically Zen. Critics argue that this boom, in turn, has helped fuel excessive self-promotion in which we post about only the good moments rather than reality - essentially, a distorted echo chamber.

Mary Pilon

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At some point along the way, I stopped being a writer, and I became a black writer. I never used to be a black writer. I used to write 'Spider-Man,' 'Green Lantern,' whatever was lying around. 'Thor,' 'Hulk,' whatever. Now, if the phone rings or when the phone rings, it's almost exclusively some project that has something to do with my ethnicity.

Christopher Priest

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I want to fight the McCarthyist state that's developing in this country so my kids won't live in a world where people are afraid to speak out.

Boots Riley

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I am viewed as the Negro who has gone outside of the categories assigned to me.

Anthony Braxton

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