Ayi Kwei Armah Quotes
Where I come from revolution is the only creation, and the revolutionary the only artist.
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I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.
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We have confirmed something we only knew in theory, namely that revolution, in which uncontrolled and uncontrollable forces operate imperiously, is blind and destructive, grandiose and cruel.
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The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.
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I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.
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Nowadays, you can be a fan of someone that's not an actor or artist. You can be a fan of someone that makes YouTube videos.
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No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.
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I barely need to reiterate what you already know: the close links that exist between our people and the people of Venezuela and Hugo Chavez, the promoter of the Bolivarian Revolution and the United Socialist Party he founded.
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Despite a certain amount of rhetoric, such as 'the second American Revolution,' there is a fair consensus about which events in the affairs of a people can rightly be called revolutions. It is also clear that such revolutions are proper objects of study for the historian.
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I can understand the Cultural Revolution of Mao Tse-tung.
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R&B is the one thing that has influenced every kind of music. Every artist that there is, from those that are sung the most to Adele - you know, she was so influenced by so many R&B artists and soul music - it's clear in her writing that that's where it comes from.
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Arab youth are taught to wonder, 'Since the Holocaust was a European affair, why are the Palestinians being forced to pay for the creation of Israel?'
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There doesn't seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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When it comes to acting, I've always had a passion for entertaining and for making people laugh. On the music side, I really want to come out as an artist because I want people to see who I really am... artistically, I tend to be drawn to the darker things. What the music will be able to do is show people that I am an adult now.
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The main difference between the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution was that the former was mostly the work of Communist party members and others who wanted to bring about 'socialism with a human face.'
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I'm not trying to become a pop artist, and I'm not trying to make sure I stay a country artist. I'm just trying to make sure I make the best music I can, according to my way.
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My family fled Iran in October 1978 as a result of the coming revolution when I was two years old. In the early days, my entire family lived together in a very crowded house, where I shared a room with my sister, cousin, and grandmother, and we would all listen to my grandmother tell stories before bedtime.
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It seems we will continue to have problems with this classification and it may be because it comes under the heading of creation rather than preservation.
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There are those special projects that don't ever feel like work but just a blessing to be a part of, and 'Revolution' is one of those projects.
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A great factory with the machinery all working and revolving with absolute and rhythmic regularity and with the men all driven by one impulse, and moving in unison as though a constituent part of the mighty machine, is one of the most inspiring examples of directed force that the world knows. I have rarely seen the face of a mechanic in the action of creation which was not fine, never one which was not earnest and impressive.
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What's really important to me is somebody who can totally let loose and pretty much be themselves and have fun.
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You can only accomplish the amount you dream.
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For many years now, I feel like my own body struggle has been linked and connected with women I meet in the world. I think we're in this together.
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Where I come from revolution is the only creation, and the revolutionary the only artist.
