Kara Walker Quotes

I am performing this role of the artist and this role of the 'negress' coming into a white-box institution. It's kind of a self-appointed role: the self-designated negress.

Kara Walker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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These thieves defend themselves by saying, 'I was there all the time, and the officials missed me.' Favorite excuses for missing surveillance checkpoints: jacket covered the number took off the shirt with the number hidden in a crowd.

Joe Henderson

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Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities.

Robert South

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I'm a very self-conscious person; I think we all are, but I'm especially not very comfortable in my body. I always feel really weird and awkward on the street or on the stage. It has nothing to do with circumstances; it's just an ongoing psychological state, like white noise.

Sufjan Stevens

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We are the rags to riches story, okay, the Robertson's are. Okay? We had very humble beginnings. Everybody's trying to figure out what, what's behind it, and all the Robertsons say, 'Hey, it's divine intervention.' Me personally, okay, God's gonna take 'Duck Dynasty' where he wants it to go, okay, and to the people that he wants it to go to.

Si Robertson

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I love being a troubadour. I travel around the world with my wife and play little theaters. We have a ball.

Roger McGuinn

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Now we have technology where we can modify the genomics of individuals by gene transfer and genetic meddling, we may find that people will want to modify their children, enhance their intelligence, their strength and their beauty and all the other so-called desirable characteristics.

Robert Winston

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Film work is a job I like to do because I really love to solve problems.

Ry Cooder

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I've been thinking of trying my hand at rap. I've been recording snippets on my BlackBerry.

Rufus Wainwright

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People say the Internet's made of cats. The reason isn't because of cats; it's because people like to have an emotion where they say 'aww' all at the same time.

Jonah Peretti

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So I thought I should write five pages a day. And that's what I did. Eventually I had a book.

Don Winslow

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'The Duino Elegies' are notoriously cryptic, and part of the reason why I have always loved them is because they invite multiple readings over the course of a lifetime.

Dinaw Mengestu

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Pain leaves a mark, the degree depending on the person and the event.

Chevy Stevens

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