When I started rapping, I was like, I’ma change my name before I become famous. And that didn’t happen. I didn’t have time. Rico Nasty Read Quote
Old film-noir movies. There’s something comforting about watching black-and-white movies, and hearing this kind of music just puts me in a fantasy world. It’s a really great escape for me. Petra Haden Read Quote
In writing, something is always left out: it can’t be articulated in the space of an essay. Glenn Ligon Read Quote
Was there ever in anyone’s life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before? Joan Didion Read Quote
Mr. Chairman, obviously a $60 million cut in the National Endowment for the Arts would be a disaster. Norm Dicks Read Quote
Florence is perhaps best known for being the seat of Renaissance art, and rightly so: A greatest-hits collection of artists passed through its streets – Michelangelo, Leonardo, Botticelli, and Brunelleschi among them. Hanya Yanagihara Read Quote
I loved living with my parents – that’s probably why I did it for so long. But it was almost too easy to live there. I had to force myself to get out, had to challenge myself. I had to start a new chapter. King Tuff Read Quote
What you believe is very powerful. If you have toxic emotions of fear, guilt and depression, it is because you have wrong thinking, and you have wrong thinking because of wrong believing. Joseph Prince Read Quote
I feel like one of the things that is central to American life is the religious experience, and I think that the experience of being Muslim in America is as valid and as important a perspective on the religious experience of America as evangelical Christianity or Judaism – whatever it may be. Ayad Akhtar Read Quote
It is from the traditional family that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesus, the bedrock of our religious faith. We are taught the difference between right and wrong, and about the law, just punishment and discipline. Kamisese Mara Read Quote
