Kerry James Marshall Quotes

When you go to an art museum, the thing you're least likely to encounter is a picture of a black person. When it comes to ideas about art and about beauty, the black figure is absent.

Kerry James Marshall

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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On a film set, there are runners who are 19, it's their first job, but to me they're as important as anybody else because if they don't do their job then nobody else can. So I don't think anybody should be treated disrespectfully or as if they're of a lower status.

Jim Carter

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The United States transportation system is the envy of the world.

Jerry Costello

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It's important to say that it's not just men that can be man-children. Women can be grown-up women and still have the playfulness of people who are younger.

Jenny Slate

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I start every morning at 7 or 7:30 in the same place - my little office where it's dark and cozy - with a cup of the same really strong black coffee. It's my little cocoon. There's no phone or fax or Internet. And no music.

John Grisham

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Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing.

John Philip Sousa

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If U.S. focuses on truth and justice, we'll realize that Israel has been there for 3,000 years - the same language, the same people, the same culture for 3,000 years - and it's always astonishing to me that we somehow now think that they're the occupiers.

Trent Franks

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Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint.

Tony Curtis

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The booing and the drama help make the Olympics interesting, but at what cost? When will people finally get tired of it and start watching the X-Games or competitive tire rolling instead?

Johnny Weir

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Boxing's not a career for anyone: it doesn't last long enough to be a career.

Chris Penn

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And look, I was a big, brassy guy who won and won big. I did what I wanted.

Brian Mulroney

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I like to capture the spirit of what the writers intended but find my own nuances. That comes from jazz - the invention and freeness within a structure.

Brian Stokes Mitchell

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Charlotte Bronte was writing about sex. I supposed Jane Austen was, too. Where do you get a hero like Darcy unless you are writing about sex?

Alice Munro

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