Faith Ringgold Quotes
No other creative field is as closed to those who are not white and male as is the visual arts. After I decided to be an artist, the first thing that I had to believe was that I, a black woman, could penetrate the art scene, and that, further, I could do so without sacrificing one iota of my blackness or my femaleness or my humanity.
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If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him?
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Dumped? Fired? Scorned? Humiliated? Totally pissed off? If so, I've got great news! You might be on your way to living your best life ever - if you consciously choose to channel this pain into fuel - and use it to motivate yourself to become your highest potential self!
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Up until the end of the Bush Administration, there was indifference to the North Korean suffering under Kim Jong-Il.
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To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.
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I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.
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You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
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If the only thing you knew about Oman was its location, you might never go at all.
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I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.
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If you take anything I say with any seriousness whatsoever, go study Yang style tai chi. It will make you live longer.
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Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.
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Women had a rights movement where they fought for changes. Men... don't band together in quite that way. It happens not in such a public-cascade way as in a house-to-house way.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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It always seemed much better to be a writer - a Real Writer - than a successful hack.
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I hope to do big action movies and strong dramas, and to produce films. I also want to get kids more involved in what's going on in the world and to be politically active.
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But when I go to Chicago, I know I'm home.
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There seems little doubt in my mind that depression, in particular at the severe end of the experience of this condition, is as real a disorder as diabetes is at the severe end of blood glucose levels.
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It's not what you achieve, it's what you overcome. That's what defines your career.
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As for the level of spectacle of the two disciplines, I leave it to the people who watch the races to comment.
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Beauty is that little something that fills the whole world, and is contained neither in a single straight nose, a long eyelash, nor a blue mountain. Some see it in a leg of mutton, others in a compound fracture; and to expect others to accept one's own definition of it is as absurd as to expect all humanity to use the same toilet-brush.
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Employers need to recognize that the world has changed and there are people who would like to help them provide solution in ways that are new, modern and that add value to companies.
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These were big ones. Those companies would then go in and build an electrical system or ports or highways, and these would basically serve just a few of the very wealthiest families in those countries.
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We've been very patient over the years but this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reset the rules for the River Murray and we're determined not to squander that opportunity.
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If I had to do it over, I wouldn't change a thing.
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No other creative field is as closed to those who are not white and male as is the visual arts. After I decided to be an artist, the first thing that I had to believe was that I, a black woman, could penetrate the art scene, and that, further, I could do so without sacrificing one iota of my blackness or my femaleness or my humanity.
