Alain LeRoy Locke Quotes
Art must discover and reveal the beauty which prejudice and caricature have overlaid.
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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.
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It's really hard for me, every day, to confront my writing. It never gets easier over time.
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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.'
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.
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I like being active and riding a bike around my neighborhood and exercising when I can.
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I don't want to hear about my death.
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Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.
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Whenever I start to really think about what I'm playing, I may play it better musically, but the feeling isn't there.
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I would categorize Die Antwoord as pop music: extreme, futuristic pop music.
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I've never had a problem with people paying attention to what you're doing and say they find that they liked it.
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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.
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I've always looked old for my age.
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I am not a person who pursues luxury. I am not like those people who, once they have money, compulsively squander it or show it off.
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Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.
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All wealth is the product of labor.
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If a musician wants to become a finer artist, he must first become a finer person.
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Art is born of humiliation.
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All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.
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Art must discover and reveal the beauty which prejudice and caricature have overlaid.
