Vietnam helped me to look at the horror and terror in the hearts of people and realize how we can’t aim guns and set booby traps for people we have never spoken a word to. That kind of impersonal violence mystifies me. Yuna Read Quote
I’m happy that good works by young artists with limited chances will see the light of day by my purchasing them. Yuna Read Quote
I would love to be able to share my artwork with as many people as possible so that I can help spread an appreciation for art in general. Yuna Read Quote
The time where people adapt to clothing is over; this is a new era where clothes adapt to people. Yuna Read Quote
Through the years I have seen myself as a peaceful person, but the awareness of the anger is part of that process. Yuna Read Quote
My great-grandfather Melvin had been a carpenter – so was my father – and they taught me the value of tools: saws, hammers, chisels, files and rulers. It all dealt with conciseness and precision. It eliminated guesswork. One has to know his tools, so he doesn’t work against himself. Yuna Read Quote
Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do. Yuna Read Quote
I excavate history. I look at lives buried under too much silence. Periods of time, like slavery, have to be revisited, reimagined, so we can move through them. Yuna Read Quote
