Kara Walker Quotes

There was a manifesto in the late '60s/early '70s, and it basically laid out what 'black art' was and that it should embrace black history and black culture. There were all these rules - I was shocked, when I found it in a book, that it even existed, that it would demarcate these artists.

Kara Walker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

HistoryArtCultureBookBlackLate

Don't ever criticize yourself. Don't go around all day long thinking, 'I'm unattractive, I'm slow, I'm not as smart as my brother.' God wasn't having a bad day when he made you... If you don't love yourself in the right way, you can't love your neighbour. You can't be as good as you are supposed to be.

Joel Osteen

LoveGoodGodDayYourselfBrother

I love novels, but I'm not a novelist. I'm just a dramatist, which means I write lines for actors. That's all I have ever wanted to do.

John Logan

LoveWriteLinesJustWantedMeans

My art is a disciplined high dive - high soar, simultaneous & polychromous, an exaltation of the verbal-visual... my dialogue.

Robert Indiana

ArtSoarDiveDialogueHigh

It is a player's league until you lose.

Jeff Van Gundy

YouLosePlayerLeagueUntil

The thought of my children growing up in an America with less freedom, less opportunity, and a lower standard of living is a long-term pain I cannot and will not bear.

Jeb Hensarling

OpportunityFreedomChildrenPain

My goal in any show is to make people laugh. That's the No. 1 thing. Everything else pales in comparison to that.

Jeff Dunham

PeopleLaughGoalEverythingShow

What I hated was doing what somebody in LA thought Jeff Foxworthy ought to do.

Jeff Foxworthy

ThoughtDoingSomebodyHatedOught

It goes without saying that 'Buncha Losers' comedies speak to tough times. The massive unemployment of the Reagan years gave us 'Taxi,' 'Cheers' and the genre-defining 'Night Court,' a show you could never admit to watching without making people feel sorry for you.

Rob Sheffield

Tough TimesPeopleNightSayingYou

I'm really trying to be in the now - that's so spiritual and stuff. It's just so much more pleasant and sane.

Robin Wright

SpiritualTryingNowMoreStuff

Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds.

Mary Astell

ReflectionServiceYouSeriousGlass

Wikipedia has a way of compiling compendiums of information on subjects.

Mitch Kapor

InformationWayWikipediaSubjects

Because I was very big and she was very small, my mother had a horrible birth when I was born. So she always said: 'I'm never having any more kids!'

Jasmine Guinness

MotherSmallBornSaidNeverShe

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