Human beings Quote by Kara Walker Download Open image “Silhouettes are reductions, and racial stereotypes are also reductions of actual human beings.” — Kara Walker ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Human beings Humans Racism Reduction Silhouettes Stereotype
The silhouette says a lot with very little information, but that's also what the stereotype does. — Kara Walker Copy Share Image
We often see discrimination on the basis of color and complexion in society. — Binnu Dhillon Copy Share Image
The racial categories that are used in a given society (for example, in contemporary America) are biologically meaningless, but sometimes it turns out that… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Although skin color is undoubtedly the most salient signal of racial identity in America, other actual or imagined bodily features have also been seen… — Randall Kennedy Copy Share Image
There's a way in which you can look at clothing as your outer skin. And because you were discriminated against because of your complexion,… — Ed Smith Copy Share Image
Stereotypes are ways of making extremely primitive and simple differentiations. Differentiations of gender, race, class, social status - so ordinary social life is very… — W. J. T. Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Human Skin Colors Were Made For Identifications, Not For Discriminations...” — Pedro Acevedo Copy Share Image
Abstraction and representation are supposed to be going down two very different paths, one sociological and the other aesthetic. — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
Our skin, our borders, all seem petty compared to alien races and the scale of galaxies. Nobody in the Star Wars universe cares about… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Racial identity is chosen and given. It is as much a product of the world's perception of you as it is of your own… — Ritchie Torres Copy Share Image
I think really the whole problem with racism and its continuing legacy in this country is that we simply love it. Who would we… — Kara Walker Copy Share Image
A lot of my work has been about the unexpected—that kind of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine… — Kara Walker Copy Share Image
One of my earliest memories involves sitting on my dad’s lap in his studio in the garage of our house and watching him draw.… — Kara Walker Copy Share Image
If you're a Black artist, you could paint a wall of smiley faces, and someone will still ask you, 'Why are you so angry?' — Kara Walker Copy Share Image
There's no diploma in the world that declares you as an artist—it's not like becoming a doctor. You can declare yourself an artist and… — Kara Walker Copy Share Image
I often compare my method of working to that of a well-meaning freed woman in a Northern state who is attempting to delineate the… — Kara Walker Copy Share Image
Im not really about blackness, per se, but about blackness and whiteness, and what they mean and how they interact with one another and… — Kara Walker Copy Share Image
The silhouette says a lot with very little information, but that's also what the stereotype does. — Kara Walker Copy Share Image
I don't think that my work is actually effectively dealing with history. I think of my work as subsumed by history or consumed by… — Kara Walker Copy Share Image
I didn’t want a completely passive viewer. Art means too much to me. To be able to articulate something visually is really an important… — Kara Walker Copy Share Image
Sugar crystallizes something in our American Soul. It is emblematic of all Industrial Processes. And of the idea of becoming white. White Being equated… — Kara Walker Copy Share Image
Humans are, as Sartre put it, 'condemned to be free'. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our… — Kenan Malik Copy Share Image
Gambling has held human beings in thrall for millennia. It has been engaged in everywhere, from the dregs of society to the most respectable… — Peter L. Bernstein Copy Share Image
Here's the reality. The image of a white Jesus has been used to justify enslavement, conquest, colonialism, the genocide of indigenous peoples. There are… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
What we're supposed to do as actors is be able to portray real human beings and emotions. And if you grow up in this… — Emily Browning Copy Share Image
A human being can only absorb a small amount of the mystical kundalini, you can be exposed again and again to it, but it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I recognize I am essentially a failed human being in the sense that I can't possibly live up to the expectations of an Almighty. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated… — Hanns Eisler Copy Share Image
For our purposes as human beings, the mind is the center of everything. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The religion of art, like the religion of politics, was born from the ruins of Christianity. Art inherited from the old religion the power… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image