Amy Sherald Quotes
My father wanted me to be a dentist like him, or any doctor, really. There was this attitude of, 'The civil rights movement was not about you being an artist.'
Amy Sherald
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Billy Jean King could not get credit when her husband was in law school and she was winning the Wimbledon, because he had to sign the cards. You know, you had these cases in the '70s of women who were mayors who couldn't get credit unless their husbands signed for them.
Gail Collins
The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.
L. Sprague de Camp
Solange's new album, 'A Seat at the Table', is so many things at once: an antidote to hate, a celebration of blackness, an expression of the right to feel it all. After a move to Louisiana and period of self-reflection, the artist joined forces with a range of collaborators to put her new discoveries to music.
Tavi Gevinson
The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.
Mahalia Jackson
Mr. Trump, like too much of the church, offers little more than an excuse to project complex problems onto simple villains. Yet the white working class needs neither more finger-pointing nor more fiery sermons.
J. D. Vance
I won't give the credit to 'good fortune.' Whatever I have achieved is because of my hard work and passion.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
Pretty much anything William Shatner is in is great. He's great at playing that 'I'm the only one sane in the world' character.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent.
Peter Conrad
I grew up with singers. My father's mother sang opera. My dad was a big band singer. I can't remember a time there wasn't music in the house, so I grew up listening to great songwriters - George Gershwin, Cole Porter - and my grandma was playing opera for me before I was 3.
J. D. Souther
To this day, I adore classical music, and I'm very interested in opera, which I found out later my father was also extremely fond of.
David Newman
Whether we wound or are wounded, the blood that flows is red.
Eiichiro Oda
My father wanted me to be a dentist like him, or any doctor, really. There was this attitude of, 'The civil rights movement was not about you being an artist.'
Amy Sherald
