Bethann Hardison Quotes
A friend of mine, Kim Hastreiter, who owns Paper Magazine, she told me, "When you left, it really changed things and you need to do something." So with the encouragement of others, I stayed around and watched, and I saw that all the girls before, such an enormous group of girls of color, all shades, it began to disappear.
Quotes to Explore
-
Publishers vet books, and they do a good job keeping out the low quality. But they also miss some good quality.
-
I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
-
I think it's funny when people, they try to imitate the 'Chandelier' video. I think it's hilarious.
-
Stages are getting higher and higher, and I'm getting older and older.
-
My parents worked in the art world. They were really supportive of my music in that they allowed me to drop out of school and move out of our home, which not many parents would do.
-
Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
-
A stronger E.U. of defence makes NATO stronger.
-
I believe that I am past my prime. I had reckoned on my prime lasting till I was at least fifty.
-
As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease.
-
Cui peccare licet, peccat minus.
-
Some people talk as if meeting the gaze of absolute goodness would be fun. They need to think again. They are still only playing with religion. Goodness is either the great safety or the great danger-according to the way you react to it.
-
By the time I was 10 or 13, I'd learned the world capitals.
-
More and more, as civilization develops, we find the primitive to be essential to us. We root into the primitive as a tree roots into the earth. If we cut off the roots, we lose the sap without which we can't progress or even survive. I don't believe our civilization can continue very long out of contact with the primitive.
-
As a black artist in America, you know, it is so segregated as far as the radio goes and how they position music on the radio.
-
Nothing is cut while I'm shooting. I edit between nine months and a year, and usually have around 80 hours of footage I have to get down to an 82-minute movie.
-
I grew up at a time with androgyny in the 1980s; it was easy to pass under the radar as a gay may.
-
I support anyone finding their worth despite being told they can't do something.
-
People love to see public figures get taken down a notch, and by the same token, everyone loves to be the center of attention, even when there's a target on their forehead.
-
Custom calls me to 't: What custom wills, in all things should we do't, The dust on antique time would lie unswept, And mountainous error be too highly heap't For truth to o'erpeer.
-
The trouble with the artists this year is they are all obsessed with Twitter and headlines. It feels like they are all getting a bit above themselves.
-
I went to school with Steven Wright, who was the shyest guy I knew, and one day someone suddenly told me that he was in a club doing standup comedy. I went down to his club and he was great. Another friend of mine, who was pretty much a thief by trade, was hosting the show. So I thought, 'If these guys can do it, then so can I.'
-
My friend is not allowed to go out today. I sit by his side and read him passages from his own life. They fill him with surprise. Everyone should keep someone else's diary; I sometimes suspect you of keeping mine.
-
I've always been a headstrong girl. I had my first child at 17, and it was a mistake, but I got a beautiful child out of it.
-
A friend of mine, Kim Hastreiter, who owns Paper Magazine, she told me, "When you left, it really changed things and you need to do something." So with the encouragement of others, I stayed around and watched, and I saw that all the girls before, such an enormous group of girls of color, all shades, it began to disappear.
