Complaining Quote by Faith Ringgold

I remember being an art student and going to the Whitney in 1974 to see the exhibition of Jim Nutt, the Chicago imagist. It…

— Jeff Koons

It was sweaty Whitney (Houston) in Central Park. She knew that park pretty well. Every bush!

— Kathy Griffin

Whitney Houston rear-ended a city bus with her sports car, but no one was hurt. She said she didn't know what happened. One minute…

— Jay Leno

“Working on the editorial page had sharpened Whitney's mind and coarsened her feelings, so she treated every subject as theoretical and abstract. Devil's advocate?…

— Laura Lippman

Whitney wanted to eradicate the idea that in the case of a language we are dealing with a natural faculty; in fact, social institutions…

— Ferdinand de Saussure

The music was soft and we just looked kind of like your average two people walking down the street. So really the press, of…

— Richard Carpenter

There was a time in American history when almost every white person knew who Aretha Franklin was.

— Peabo Bryson

I did want to mark the fact that it was the first African-American to win the Lead Actress category.I thought it was so progressive.

— Viola Davis

The audience got jaded, they want a hit, they want a big success, and so you don't want to experiment because you say, well,…

— Mel Brooks

I remember getting flowers and champagne for being one of the first black artists on MTV. That was a big deal.

— Tionne Watkins

I have been trying to find out exactly when listeners and performers decided that applause between movements would not be allowed, but nobody seems…

— Emanuel Ax

I couldn't bare the idea of not being in regular communication with the audience I love - young women of color.

— Michaela Angela Davis