Kehinde Wiley Quotes

By and large, most of the work that we see in the great museums throughout the world are populated with people who don't happen to look like me.

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• I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.

  

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• Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.

  

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• Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

  

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• Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.

  

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• I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.

  

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• I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.

  

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• We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.

  

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• I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.

  

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• Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel.

  

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• No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.

  

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• I think everybody should focus on inner beauty.

  

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• The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.

  

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• Books are no different from goats! They enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn.

  

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• Of course I wanted an agent from the time I was like 5, but my mother was like, 'No, you're going to be normal, you're going to go to school, you're going to get good grades, you're going to play soccer, and if you do well, if you keep your grades up, you can do one community-theater show a year.'

  

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• Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.

  

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• I wouldn't want to do anything like 'Minecraft' again, where it's, like, an on-going thing, and there are customers I have to keep happy.

  

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• I think cursing is a bunch of malarkey.

  

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• Once you get on stage, everything is right. I feel the most beautiful, complete, fulfilled. I think that's why, in the case of noncompromising career women, parts of our personal lives don't work out. One person can't give you the feeling that thousands of people give you.

  

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• On an animated television series, you pretty much read the script as written. Whereas on an animated feature, you'll sometimes record the same scene multiple times over the course of a year as the filmmakers continue to tweak that part of the movie.

  

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• I feel that single mommies don't get enough praise and accolades. I've had first-hand experience. My mother was a single mom. As far as I'm concerned, mommies, in general, rule the world. And single mothers just take it to a whole other level.

  

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• By and large, most of the work that we see in the great museums throughout the world are populated with people who don't happen to look like me.

  

  Kehinde Wiley
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