Quotes about Magic, page 2

To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality.

Quote by Guillaume Apollinaire about magic

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them

Quote by Maya Angelou about magic

Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.

Quote by Muhammad Ali about magic

The worn-out saucepans and tinware of our kitchens, when beyond the reach of the tinker's art, are not utterly worthless.

Quote by Charles Babbage about magic

I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling for him.

Quote by Hank Aaron about magic

For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!

Quote by Edward Abbey about magic

During the many centuries that magic, here on this planet, was presumed to have worked, there were at least as many theories as to how magic worked as there were cultures and religions.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about magic

I have a problematic relationship with magic: when push comes to shove, I don't believe in it.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about magic

Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Quote by Lester Bangs about magic

Magic works differently for every author who's written for the series.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about magic

Magical realism is based on magical magic, that is, the happening of things that cannot be explained by the characters and are not explained by the author.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about magic

Talking Heads, were a sorta collegian kinda art school, I'm trying not to make them sound so bad cause I really love em.

Quote by Lester Bangs about magic

The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.

Quote by Lester Bangs about magic

As a young kid growing up, black kids identified with me. We all danced together, and we shared that love for art.

Quote by Paula Abdul about magic

Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted.

Quote by Paula Abdul about magic

Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.

Quote by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar about magic

During 1866 and 1922, Native Americans and black soldiers often intermingled in the American west, on the frontier.

Quote by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar about magic

I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.

Quote by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar about magic

I think race has been a burden for black Americans. Being Muslim has also been a challenge because so many people do not understand Islam.

Quote by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar about magic

Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.

Quote by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar about magic