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Glenn Ligon Quotes

I have been interested in neon for a long time. The first neon I made was in 2006, using the word 'America.'

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: artist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1960

Topics

Time America Long Long Time First

I don't think of myself as funny - I don't fill up a room with my humor... I would fail miserably as a stand-up comedian.

Funny Myself Humor Think Room Fail

This gun is liberty; hold for certain that the day when you no more have it, you will be returned to slavery.

Toussaint Louverture

Day Slavery Gun You Liberty Will

Sometimes, as is the case of peach and plum trees, which are often dwarfed, the plants are thrown into a flowering states, and then, as they flower freely year after year, they have little inclination to make vigorous growth.

Flower Growth Gardening Plants Trees

It's wherever business rules, business is going to get the politicians they want because they control the money and money controls the power.

Business Power Money Control Rules

I think comedy and satire are a very important part of democracy, and it's important we are able to laugh at the idiosyncrasies or the follies or vanities of people in power.

Power People Democracy Think Laugh

If you're fleeing Nazi Germany in 1939 and you're a Jew, you don't think so much about relationships. People didn't have a lot of divorces during the Holocaust, for instance.

People Think You Holocaust Much Jew

I see life as increasingly complex, vivid, colorful, crazy, chaotic. That's the world I write about... the world I live in.

Life Live Crazy World Colorful See

The focus on my wife and my children, it really helps me make sense of the music side of it somehow.

Music Children Focus Wife Me Side

I keep trying to understand the phenomenon of why adults are so literal when children are so imaginative. Toys are a caricature of reality.

Brian Sutton-Smith

Children Reality Trying Understand

Asking questions is an essential part of police investigation. In the ordinary sense a police officer is free to ask a person for identification without implicating the Fourth Amendment.

Anthony Kennedy

Police Free Questions Person Asking

Wikipedia was a big help for science, especially science communication, and it shows no sign of diminishing in importance.

Communication Science Help Big Sign

I was always a bit of a jokester.

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