Contribution Quote by Jerry Pinkney

“I've tried to use the recognition as validation that I'm doing the kind of work that people are interested in and to feel that my work is a contribution.”

Jerry Pinkney

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (10 ratings)

Contribution Feels Kind People Psychology Recognition Use Validation

More by Jerry Pinkney

Receiving both the Coretta Scott King - Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award suggests I have succeeded, at…

Jerry Pinkney

Image

“…this story offers far more than a simple moral of how the meek can trump the mighty.”

Jerry Pinkney

Image

Drawing creates its own kind of private space. Coupled with certain interests that I want to speak to in my art, it's really kind…

Jerry Pinkney

Image

If I were to give myself a pat on the back, it would be for sticking with bookmaking as my primary way of expressing…

Jerry Pinkney

Image

I'm often in conversations with people who have learning disabilities, and they talk about how they were teased and perhaps laughed at sometimes as…

Jerry Pinkney

Image

Though the blame cannot be placed entirely on publishers, I do think a more diverse pool of editors would go a long way toward…

Jerry Pinkney

Image

I've always felt that if I worked hard enough and continued to refine my craft, while staying curious about our times and our world,…

Jerry Pinkney

Image

All of us have places that we can go where we feel most complete.

Jerry Pinkney

Image

The process of creating art allows me to learn about the subject I'm illustrating. So, if I want to learn more about plantation life…

Jerry Pinkney

Image

Part of what I'm doing with generations is that I try to express in my work pieces of my growing up years that I…

Jerry Pinkney

Image

I never demonstrate how art should be made or what the outcome should look like. Instead, give kids the tools and the materials to…

Jerry Pinkney

Image

There's probably more of a struggle to get material and narratives published that really speak to black culture. And that has a lot to…

Jerry Pinkney

Image

Explore all 27 Jerry Pinkney quotes

More Contribution quotes

You should avoid hedging, at least that's what I think. You should be ashamed to die until you've made some contribution to mankind.

Vernon Johns

Image

Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.

William James

Image

I love Black Sabbath. They made an amazing contribution to music today. Almost every band that made it big in the Nineties owed a…

Dave Grohl

Image

There is still zero empirical evidence that anthropogenic production of CO2 is making any measurable contribution to the world's present warming trend.

Alexander Cockburn

Image

I have nothing but praise for the boy. He is easily the best player in the world. His contribution as a goal threat is…

Alex Ferguson

Image

The way a culture treats women in birth is a good indicator of how well women and their contributions to society are valued and…

Ina May Gaskin

Image

The excellence of this important contribution to genre literature CANNOT be overstated A masterwork.

William F. Nolan

Image

Of course, corporations and governments have a right to something for their money. They pay the wages. But they don't have the ethical right…

John Ralston Saul

Image

Fundamentally transforming the foundations of the economy is the biggest contribution we can make towards building a sustainable future. The current economic crisis may…

Jonathon Porritt