Alain LeRoy Locke Quotes

Art must discover and reveal the beauty which prejudice and caricature have overlaid.

Alain LeRoy Locke

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• I can tell you I'm not exactly sure why I teach. I think a lot of it is just it's the sense of community. A real desire to be involved both with people older than myself and people younger.

  

  Edgar Meyer
  • People
  • Real
  • Why

• It's really hard for me, every day, to confront my writing. It never gets easier over time.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Day

• I don't like to read reviews. Even the good ones you start to analyze: 'Oh, did I do that? I have to make sure I do that again.'

  

  Faith Prince
  • Good
  • You
  • Start

• When I was twelve, I started reading Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O'Connor, James Agee, and - do we dare breathe the name - William Faulkner.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • Reading
  • Name
  • Breathe

• I am not a prisoner of conscious, but people try to make me one sometimes. It is both a gift and a curse. It's a high honour but can create limitations - I have to be fluid.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Gift
  • Conscious
  • Curse

• My parents live out in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of this peach orchard. It's actually Peach County, one of the largest peach-growing counties in Georgia. It's very rural, and there is nothing much going on, so I guess that's had a big influence on everything as far as just not having much to do.

  

  Washed Out
  • Live
  • Parents
  • Growing

• When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Time
  • Great
  • Power

• And so, the youngsters you have today, even though there are far fewer of them - in World War II 16.5 million men and women in uniform, today roughly a million in uniform in spite of the fact that the country is almost twice as large a population as we had in World War II.

  

  Oliver North
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Great
  • Effort
  • Attitude

• I like being active and riding a bike around my neighborhood and exercising when I can.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Like
  • Bike
  • Riding

• I don't want to hear about my death.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Want
  • Death
  • Hear

• Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • You
  • Board
  • Chairman

• Whenever I start to really think about what I'm playing, I may play it better musically, but the feeling isn't there.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • May
  • Think
  • Feeling

• I would categorize Die Antwoord as pop music: extreme, futuristic pop music.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Music
  • Die
  • Pop Music

• Playing a cop goes a long way. I have a lot of friends who are working as actors, and as soon as I started playing military characters or cops, and not the actual criminal that we're chasing on this show, they all said, 'You actually can have a career now.'

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Long
  • Friends
  • Career

• I've never had a problem with people paying attention to what you're doing and say they find that they liked it.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Attention
  • Problem

• After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Women
  • Party
  • Purpose

• I've always looked old for my age.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Age
  • Always
  • Old

• No, I'm not a great painter. Neither am I a great poet.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Poet
  • Painter

• My songs are like my children - I expect them to support me when I'm old.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Children
  • Song
  • Support

• I think it's the same with all the relationships between a man and a woman. They can survive anything so long as some kind of basic humanity exists between the two people. When all kindness has gone, when one person obviously and sincerely doesn't care if the other is alive or dead, then it's just no good. -- from Quantum of Solace

  

  Ian Fleming
  • People
  • Good
  • Long

• In the mid- to late '60s to the mid-'70s, when I was a student, there was a major change in the thinking about what art can be and how art is made.

  

  Bill Viola
  • Thinking
  • Art

• I celebrated success in the art world, which was quite sudden, and I suddenly had $1,000 a month, when formerly I had nothing, basically. So what we did with this money: we had a baby, we bought a car, and we celebrated by going to Rome, because it would be warmer and better looking.

  

  Peter Saul
  • World
  • Money
  • Art

• Art must discover and reveal the beauty which prejudice and caricature have overlaid.

  

  Alain LeRoy Locke
  • Art
  • Beauty
  • Discover