Elizabeth Catlett quotes

“I wanted to show the history and strength of all kinds of black women. Working women, country women, urban women, great women in the history of the United States,”
-- Elizabeth Catlett

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“I have always wanted my art to service my people - to reflect us, to relate to us, to stimulate us, to make us aware of our potential. We have to create an art for liberation and for life.”
-- Elizabeth Catlett

Source : "Elizabeth Catlett, Sculptor With Eye on Social Issues, Is Dead at 96" by Karen Rosenberg, www.nytimes.com. April 3, 2012.

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“Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.”

“Into my hear an air that kills through yon far country blows what are those blue remembered hills what spires,what farms are those? that is the land of lost content I can see it shining plain the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.”

“I am a big admirer of Sachin and his personality. He is a source of inspiration for the country and just looking at his photographs gives a lot of positive vibes.”

“When you take a tree that is rooted in the ground, and transfer it from one place to another, the tree will no longer bear fruit. And if it does, the fruit will not be as good as it was in its original place. This is a rule of nature. I think if I had left my country, I would be the same as the tree.”

“Fifty-seven countries in the world, a third of the United Nations, do not recognize Israel. In a way, I think North Korea has better international relations than Israel.”

“Write. No amount of self-inflicted misery, altered states, black pullovers or being publicly obnoxious will ever add up to your being a writer. Writers write. On you go.”

Source : "Ten rules for writing fiction". www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

“Mainstream medias representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black mens lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation.”

“Women are so perverse. Look how they won't wear black when nothing suits them so well!”

Source : Ada Leverson (1907). “The Twelfth Hour”

“In theory, cars are fairly simple. If they don't start, it's either the fuel system or the electrical system. Teach yourself about the path of each in your engine and tracing it is fairly straightforward. But at the beginning, mastering each new system seems like an unreachable shore. The car is effectively a black box.”

“Hip-hop went through different stages, from the beginning in the streets of the Bronx, to the whole Tri-State area and then to the rest of the United States and the rest of the world.”