Kara Walker Quotes

It feels like a game, this work I do. It is totally heartfelt, and I love the sticky terrain, the straight-up cartoons, how the irrepressible and icky rise to the surface. But I am not just trying to call forth bugaboos and demons for the sake of it, for fun.

Kara Walker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WorkLoveI AmFunGameDemons

I've always loved records, even when I was a kid, my parents would buy me records instead of a lot of the other toys kids got. That's what I wanted. I've been collecting records and DJing my whole life, and I thank my parents for that. They had a big record collection and really imparted the magic of it on me.

Mayer Hawthorne

LifeParentsMeLovedMagicKid

When people start thinking of you more as a persona, they are less inclined to allow you to move into different areas. Sometimes they're wrong. Sometimes they're just very stereotypical or restricted in their own thinking of what they'll allow you to do.

Robert Redford

PeopleStartThinkingYouWrongOwn

What happened was, when I got into the brawl in Detroit, I was transitioning into a different type of person, that person that I've become, but that game had so many emotions involved.

Metta World Peace

GameEmotionsPersonDetroitBecome

I made my money the old-fashioned way; I inherited it. I think that's a great thing to do.

John Raese

GreatMoneyThinkWayGreat Thing

I understand people who say, 'There is no Queen without Freddie. Just leave it be.' Because that's what we felt, following his death. All three of us said, 'Right, that's the end of the band.' But the band just didn't seem to die.

Roger Taylor

DeathQueenPeopleEndDieThree

I get emotional when young people get nostalgic about my work. That's why it's called nostalgia. Sometimes I even cry.

Mithun Chakraborty

WorkPeopleNostalgiaYoungCryWhy

People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.

Lucille Clifton

MistakePoetryPeopleCelebrateWish

My mother used to sit at the foot of my bed, and she would share her dreams with me.

Liz Murray

MotherDreamsMeBedSheShare

Learning to live for others isn't something that just comes naturally to anybody. You have to train yourself to do it.

Joyce Meyer

LearningLiveYourselfYouTrain

Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess.

Juan Ramon Jimenez

NostalgiaInfiniteSharpTerrible

There are so many factors that go into having a successful movie.. too many that you can't control.

Jason Blum

ControlYouGoSuccessfulMovieToo

Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power.

Josh Tillman

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