Kehinde Wiley Quotes
In a sense, we are all victims of the misogyny and racism that exist in the world, no matter what our gender or race happens to be.
Quotes to Explore
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
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I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
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Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.
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I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.
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I know that in my family there are histories of violence that are internal family things and that are oftentimes dealt with internally. By internally, I mean inside the family group, but also partly inside ourselves. You know, self-hatred and hostility and rage and this cycle that won't break.
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In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
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As I always like to keep in mind about everything: Don't fight the trend.
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It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.
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After I learn more English, I'll work hard and make more films.
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The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.
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Suffering produces the very endurance that will enable you to reach the finish line of the race set before you.
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When you're on a football scholarship, you get a stipend that's supposed to cover your rent and a few incidentals. It was $360 a month. This was the late 1980s, and the NCAA has an interesting rule where you're not allowed to supplement your income with a part-time job.
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As I get older, I feel better about myself because I've done a lot of spiritual work on myself and balanced myself out, and so I feel more confident about myself as a person and as a woman.
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God, my brain really goes to mush when I'm pregnant.
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This world is the will to power and nothing besides!
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In a sense, we are all victims of the misogyny and racism that exist in the world, no matter what our gender or race happens to be.
