Top 19 Wangechi Quotes

#1. In Wangechi Mutu's mother tongue, Kikuyu, there is no word for "artist." The closest term is something like "magician" or "a person who uses objects and imbues them with meaning and power,

Sarah Thornton

Wangechi Quotes #1519671
#2. As a chef and as a father, I am very upset by what's on the menu at most schools: chicken nuggets and tater tots and ketchup and pizza.

Jose Andres

Wangechi Quotes #736350
#3. As a precious metal, silver is also money.

Robert Kiyosaki

Wangechi Quotes #1767828
#4. It is somehow easier to face things when one is not alone. Courage still does most of the heavy lifting, but Pride gets its shoulder in there, too, just to keep you from embarrassing yourself in front of the other person...or hedgehog, as the case may be.

T. Kingfisher

Wangechi Quotes #1762571
#5. Always ask, you might get a yes.

Rena Manse

Wangechi Quotes #1435936
#6. All men are jerks, all women are psychotic.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Wangechi Quotes #1338639
#7. I hope my kids see imagination has power to change everything.

Wangechi Mutu

Wangechi Quotes #1185923
#8. Anyone who thinks impressions of old movie actors is funny absolutely cannot be trusted. I think it's like a law of nature.

Stephen King

Wangechi Quotes #1181481
#9. I'm not a policy maker. I'm not even a very great activist. My main thing is to make things that speak for the culture that I live in.

Wangechi Mutu

Wangechi Quotes #1110728
#10. If I'd known you were coming, I would have lived differently.

Eve Dangerfield

Wangechi Quotes #886088
#11. [Jorge Luis Borges] had short stories, and I was trying to learn how to write short stories, and then he had these things in the middle that were like fables, and I loved hearing fables.

Sandra Cisneros

Wangechi Quotes #786886
#12. What is Africa, anyway? Even I don't know what Africa is, entirely. But I know that it's not some of these simplified sound bites you hear in America.

Wangechi Mutu

Wangechi Quotes #728960
#13. She could just imagine, all her friends and family mourning around her grave. The tombstone would read Kari Wagner, Died of Sheer Stupidity.
It would be almost as bad to have her grave marker read Died of Terminal Bedroom Boredom.

Cherise Sinclair

Wangechi Quotes #634508
#14. In most cases I start off with a sketch. But I'm also thinking about real images: out of National Geographic, out of fashion magazines, out of The Economist, out of Time. I'm making a sketch, but I'm using the existing images that have been put out in the world.

Wangechi Mutu

Wangechi Quotes #627581
#15. Always acknowledge your position in the food chain ... They eat because you grow the food.

Wangechi Mutu

Wangechi Quotes #433087
#16. A lot of my work reflects the incredible influence that America has had on contemporary African culture. Some of it's insidious, some of it's innocuous, some of it's invisible. It's there.

Wangechi Mutu

Wangechi Quotes #279524
#17. I have a million story-lines for 'Revenge' and they never listen to me.

Gabriel Mann

Wangechi Quotes #212164
#18. Females carry the marks, language and nuances of their culture more than the male. Anything that is desired or despised is always placed on the female body.

Wangechi Mutu

Wangechi Quotes #105740
#19. I confess to you guys, I confess to the church, I know I have backed away from certain things because of my arrogance. I thought I could attract more people to Jesus by hiding certain things about him.

Francis Chan

Wangechi Quotes #6348

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