#ace

I'm just an artist and I'm doin' what I like to do. ↗

— Mos Def

#door #face #feels #firmly #i

It's possible and available to any artist to be himself or herself on their own terms, to be accepted and embraced by black people. You don't have to be a thug to get love from black people. ↗

— Mos Def

#any #artist #available #black #embraced

Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place. ↗

— Jacques Delors

#american society #bad #bad guys #cinema #explains

I think in New York we had respect and we would pretty much fill up the places where we went, but I never got the sense that we really were Number 1 here in New York among the Latin crowds. ↗

— Ruben Blades

#crowds #fill #got #had #here

After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible. ↗

— Barbara Deming

#could #cut #harm #little #might

Let's put aside the politics and trust the people. Let's embrace the unique opportunity we all have; take the heat and make the hard and difficult decisions, knowing that we're doing it to make things better for the people of Illinois. ↗

— Rod Blagojevich

#better #decisions #difficult #difficult decisions #doing

I've always been an outsider; a displaced person. ↗

— Siobhan Fahey

#been #displaced #i #outsider #person

Remember that a painting - before it is a battle horse, a nude model, or some anecdote - is essentially a flat surface covered with colours assembled in a certain order. ↗

— Maurice Denis

#assembled #battle #before #certain #colours

I've never been in jeopardy, but being an actor is a pretty shady place to be because you never know where your next job is. ↗

— Kat Dennings

#because #been #being #i #jeopardy

If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it. ↗

— Andrew Denton

#art #earth #even #greater #literature