Kara Walker Quotes

The promise of any artwork is that it can hold us - viewer and maker - in a conflicted or contestable space, without real-world injury or loss.

Kara Walker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 26, 1969

Topics

SpaceLossWithoutHoldUsInjury

I've had some 'riotous excursions of the human spirit' alongside the young Sailors and Marines, and it's time to leave the stage to the young leaders who got their rank the old-fashioned way - they earned their stripes in combat.

Jim Mattis

TimeYoungSpiritWayHuman Spirit

How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.

Robert Penn Warren

LifePoetryGrowOutYourPoems

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.

Robert Kennedy

LiveWisdomTragedyLivingTool

Girls talk to each other like men talk to each other. But girls have an eye for detail.

Amy Winehouse

MenDetailEyeTalkLikeOther

There is always the potential for a central bank to engage in discretionary monetary policy and to break the one-to-one link between changes in foreign reserves and changes in the money supply.

Steve Hanke

MoneyPotentialChangesBankEngage

I'll write teen stories as long as people will let me. I'll also be excited for the day when I'm told I can no longer write teen stories.

Stephanie Savage

DayTeenPeopleMeLongI Can

A lot of my work comes from what in Asia is called the 'mind of wonder.' There is not a lot of 'mind of wonder' writing in contemporary Western literature. I think that's what appeals to the readers who are my fans.

Tom Robbins

WorkMindWritingThinkLiterature

I have great sympathy for people that are infertile, but a life is not something you can give away.

Mary Beth Whitehead

LifeGreatPeopleSympathyYouGive

It's cool to play a sinister bad guy who also has a human side.

Lukas Haas

CoolBadPlayHumanBad GuySide

For me, the most important and distinguishing property of new media is interactivity. But how many people can actually create interactive games, animations, or simulations? Not very many. So, in my mind, very few people are truly literate with new media.

Mitchel Resnick

PeopleMindMeMediaCreateNew

If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.

Joseph Addison

HeartManLaughterBelieveCapable

I like the good life too much, I'm not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.

Anthony Hopkins

LifeGoodNightGood LifeToo Much

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