Try paying the bills with love. The idea I am trying to espouse is that you can have both love and money, and be rich and generous.
Art without emotion its like chocolate cake without sugar. It makes you gag.
I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles.
Why are you being so mean?" "Friends tell friends the truth. " "yeah, but not to hurt, to help.
Write about the emotions you fear the most.
She cannot chain my soul. Yes, she could hurt me. She'd already done so. . . I would bleed, or not. Scar, or not. Live, or not. But she could not hurt my soul, not unless I gave it to her.
I wonder how long it would take for anyone to notice if I just stopped talking.
I find that after a screening, people really want to come and tell you what they feel.
With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
Never give up! If adversity presses, Providence wisely has mingled the cup, And the best counsel, in all your distresses, Is the stout watchword of "Never give up. "
In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired than are Black men.