Wangechi Mutu Quotes
Always acknowledge your position in the food chain... They eat because you grow the food.
Quotes to Explore
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My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.
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Take these broken wings and learn to fly.
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YOUR WORD IS YOUR WAND. THE WORDS YOU SPEAK CREATE YOUR OWN DESTINY
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When youre a stay-at-home mother you have to pretend its really boring, but its not. Its enriching and fulfilling, and an amazing experience. And then when youre a working mother you have to pretend that you feel guilty all day long.
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The true entrepreneur is a doer.
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I would say that now I'm somebody who goes to church.
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I am a guy who talks about bacon and escalators. Stand-up comedy is very much a conversation. It's very personal, stylistically.
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I think of my art materials not as junk but as garbage. Manure, actually: it goes from being the waste material of one being to the life-source of another.
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A pale sun poked impudent marmalade fingers through the grizzled lattice glass, and sent the shadows scurrying, like convent girls menaced by a tramp.
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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives acts and experiences otherwise than we do?
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The Devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.
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What a piece of work is a man
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The war against Russia will be such that it cannot be conducted in a knightly fashion. This struggle is one of ideologies and racial differences and will have to be conducted with unprecedented, unmerciful and unrelenting harshness.
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He that revels in a well-chosen library, has innumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavour.
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I never thought of my work in terms of being radical, although I tried to make it radical- that is, to shift the premise of what goes for pictures on a wall. I wanted my work to say something other than the usual- the usual format for an artwork being a rectangle, a square, or anything flat, framed, and attached or hooked on the wall. That was accepted practice, mainline thinking.
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It is as deeply implanted in our nature to breed children as it is to eat and drink.
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There's a major underlying idea as you grow up that you need to just save your money and get that affordable housing at the edge of town where you're away from the city where all the crime happens or whatever.
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Always acknowledge your position in the food chain... They eat because you grow the food.
