African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It's not a dormant. It's not a means to collect the largest cheering section. It should be healing, a source a joy. Spreading positive vibrations.
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Related It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particuarly long to learn that for yourself. Ther... NEIL GAIMAN you have to be the prude or the slut, and if you pick one, other people hate you for it, and you can... NED VIZZINI Love, what you DO,
Respect, who DOES for you,
Appreciate, who DOES for others,
Salute, who DOES for ... PRITISH PATTANAIK If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader. DEBASISH MRIDHA When he entered the anteroom, two women looked up at him. One was Miss Robertson, the governor's sec... GEORGE P. ELLIOTT If you're not really having a good time, it's not worth it. KYLE CHANDLER I was going to make him proud of the man I would become. I was finally going to chart my own course,... EMORY R. FRIE If by that you mean that I dislike celebrity magazines, prefer food to anorexia, refuse to watch TV ... JOHN GREEN How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS You silly," said Abdul, "those clouds don' mean nothing. I see'd them plenty a'ready. It was jus' co... THEO ENGELA It is better to be a pragmatist than a lunatic. DEBASISH MRIDHA - I tak nieźle sobie pożyłem. - Co to za życie? – powiedział ojciec.- Nic tylko kłamstw... CHARLES BUKOWSKI To change yourself you have to move from where you are and take a step, then you have to be willing ... BRENT M. JONES If I were to reduce all my feelings and their painful conflicts to a single name, I can think of no ... HERMANN HESSE Thus have I, Wall, my part discharged so; And, being done, thus Wall away doth go. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Better to put your heart on the line, risk everything, and walk away with nothing than play it safe.... MANDY HALE He never seemed to get tired. Always first up and ready to move on. Never afraid of what lay ahead. ERIN HUNTER Just do it. Now. M. YEATS Unsubscribe from should-a, would-a, could-a MICHAEL H. DANSBURY For starters, that’s a rather simple principle of Time Travel right there – and according to the... CHRISTINA ENGELA You don't find interesting stuff because you don't search enough, ... every book has it's own lesson... DEYTH BANGER 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON There are so many things we do in life that define the real meaning of our lives. There are so many ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH One day a small monkey was always getting ignored by the other monkeys ,so to get attention he said ... GARY F EVANS... Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul... DAVE PELZER When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w... A.A. MILNE Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s... CARTER CROCKER People themselves makes a lots of mistakes and still loves himself,
and they never forget a single m... OM BENIWAL You can not change what happened or bring back the past. But you can change the future by being stro... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA The purpose of torture is not getting information. It's spreading fear. EDUARDO GALEANO Are you sure/That we are awake? It seems to me/That yet we sleep, we dream WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed. A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered.” ... A.A. MILNE It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project. NAPOLEON HILL Parliament is supposed to be serious. It's not a place for jingoistic cheering. JEREMY CORBYN Bekka treated her role has Frankenstein's bride more like an audition to be Brett's bride. Every par... LISI HARRISON If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live wi... JOAN POWERS Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?' 'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh... A.A. MILNE By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes. E.M. FORSTER If you can't do it today, You can not do it in your whole life! Do it NOW! KAMAL KHANZADA Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is. MICHAEL KEATON Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM God is Alien?? Think on this, it's sounds very interesting, is he....?? or he is not??? DEYTH BANGER A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE People consider Black Star a great album, and I think it's a classic album. But the fact is, bot... TALIB KWELI Life is a re-discovery. BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga... GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception. DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire! DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y... GARY F EVANS... Ian was the kind of smart that makes your straight A student look like she’d drown in a wet paper ... MATT K. TURNER People live for eating,but
I eat for survive OM BENIWAL I am Happy and satisfied with what I am.
10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will... NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar... GARY F EVANS... His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I ... NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. HARPER LEE I have spend a lot of time on everything and what's impresses me about people I have written that in... DEYTH BANGER Contrary to what we've been told, life is simple. We complicate matters with our choices. MICHELLE RICHARDSON If it's about what I like, I like opera as a music and deathstep and dubstep. DEYTH BANGER A successful teacher is one who has atleast 2 students in his class, one who sees no reason to study... APURVA GAGLANI You can coddle your rage, or you can fully engage. TONY CLEAVER Zen, per se, is not just an art, it's not just a religion, it's a realisation. GENE CLARK There's a great joy in my giving. It's thrilling. It's exhilarating. It's important ... W. CLEMENT STONE Human beings are created with empathy. Art serves that purpose. So why should I be disinterested in ... EVELYNE BROCHU Music is just such... it's not therapy, but it's a release, it's a joy, it's a pleas... BRYAN ADAMS Nowadays, it's hard to find the best horror and to be interesting and to be afraid of it! DEYTH BANGER To kill yourself for earning a salary is not worth it. NARGIS FAKHRI I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is. TED TURNER Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c... GERMANY KENT Stephen picks up on Armstrong's pier, and calls Kingstown pier "a disappointed bridge " (2.22)... JAMES JOYCE I'm not an Emontional, but how??? I live with the thought that "Nothing can be returned, it has... DEYTH BANGER There is this one thing that I never ever want to know, and that is knowing how to give up on a true... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH A godmother is always there and genuine.The help she has given will never be forgotten but will glis... GARY F EVANS... If tomorrow was yesterday then yesterday would be tomorrow, if we think about the past why not think... GARY F EVANS... Start seeing a way for yourself. Stop seeing a way for others. APURVA GAGLANI and the girl and I get into her car and drive off into the hills and we go to her room and I take of... BRET EASTON ELLIS Mos Def is a name that I built and cultivated over the years. It's a name that the streets taugh... MOS DEF Is it just me, or do you also think this is unnatural behavior in a female parent? Isn't there a fed... ANN EDWARDS CANNON Anytime you wonder about something, keep in mind and remember, there is something that can make you ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want... CRAIG GROESCHEL A lot of things should have been, Zigmund, but they aren’t. Are you going to be miserable about th... MELIKA DANNESE LUX I'm retiring the Mos Def name after 2011. I'm actually doing it. MOS DEF We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements. LAURA DOCKRILL It is a pro-U.N. movie. It's a pro-American movie. It's a pro-American movie. It's a mov... SCOTT RITTER For me, my life is a journey. JAY ELECTRONICA You are an adult and you don't understand me and what are the differences between the adult and the ... DEYTH BANGER Mos Def is a name that I built and cultivated over the years it's a name that the streets taught... MOS DEF If you catch yourself wondering why you want more of the world and you're not satisfied with God, it... CRAIG GROESCHEL Instinct's the iron skeleton under all our ideas of free will. STEPHEN KING I think that men's clothing should be functional. If there's a rip in his jeans, it should b... SAMAIRE ARMSTRONG If you want to strike, strike now. No matter how skillfully a footballer strikes beyond the 90 minut... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR I love you crookedly because my heart's been unhinged from birth. The doctors gave me strict instru... MATHIAS MALZIEU
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What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective end... MOS DEF Reckless capitalism kills black people. MOS DEF Bob Marley performed the 'One Love Peace' concert in Jamaica with the two different warring ... MOS DEF You're not gonna get through life without being worshipful or devoted to something. You're e... MOS DEF I'm not shy about heated debate or passionate discourse, but when people get crazy or rude, that... MOS DEF Focused. I'm a hustler. And my hustle is trying to figure out the best ways to do what I like wi... MOS DEF I come from a family of very devout, praying people. That idea of peace and love toward humanity sho... MOS DEF That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn't be nationalistic or denominational. It sho... MOS DEF Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate. MOS DEF If you're going to do Chuck Berry, you got to, you know, go all out, and the duck walk is just k... MOS DEF But even creeps deserve to live someplace halfway decent. MOS DEF I'm just an artist and I'm doin' what I like to do. MOS DEF Everything's got space between it, the planets, trees, your eyes. Your eyes get too close togeth... MOS DEF I'm a passionate person. I'm a lot of things, like most people are. Most people are dynamic.... MOS DEF You have to be an extremist to believe that you're gonna be the president of the United States a... MOS DEF I began to fear that Mos Def was being treated as a product, not a person, so I've been going by... MOS DEF I'm retiring the Mos Def name after 2011. I'm actually doing it. MOS DEF Mos Def is a name that I built and cultivated over the years. It's a name that the streets taugh... MOS DEF Mos Def is a name that I built and cultivated over the years it's a name that the streets taught... MOS DEF I feel like being into the beat of your own drum has become too prominent in the culture. MOS DEF With guys I revere, like Marcus Garvey or Malcolm X, their look is less about style than purpose and... MOS DEF To me, playing an instrument and singing, all of these different things are just as natural to me as... MOS DEF I've always loved rhyming. I love language. MOS DEF You want to know how to rhyme, then learn how to add. It's mathematics. MOS DEF I'm inspired by playwrights, novelists, poets: The value of language has been a lifelong passion... MOS DEF You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions. MOS DEF My presence speaks volumes before I say a word. MOS DEF It wouldn't be fair to cast aspersions on an entire cultural movement based on the actions of a ... MOS DEF I know what it feels like to have the door slammed firmly in my face, so I'm cool with that. MOS DEF And remember don't high post when you're far from home, and high posting when you're all alone. MOS DEF Pour Some Sugar on Me, DEF LEPPARD Drive In Saturday. DEF LEPPARD It's a mantle we don't deserve. That's not what we're about. We do big pop songs with bombast -- and... DEF LEPPARD We sit on the fence between hard rock and pop, DEF LEPPARD ya better come inside when you're ready to but no chance if ya don't wanna dance you... DEF LEPPARD