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

#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

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

Robert Kiyosaki

#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

#5. Always ask, you might get a yes.

Rena Manse

#6. All men are jerks, all women are psychotic.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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

Wangechi Mutu

#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

#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

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

Eve Dangerfield

#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

#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

#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

#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

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

Wangechi Mutu

#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

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

Gabriel Mann

#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

#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