Quotes About Influence

When you grow up looking at Superman, Batman, and all those superheroes, you take it for granted that is what superheroes are supposed to be. So then, when I see art books at the library, and I'm seeing Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo and Rembrandt, I think that's what artists look like.

I mean in the community that I grew up in, you know, a very, you know, mixed, almost entirely African Diaspora community, one of the things that we were not ever supposed to say was how much self-hatred and colorism determined and guided what we would call our desire. In other words, what we would consider beautiful.

My mother used to dress rather risque when I was a kid, and that sort of shocked me. I always thought moms were supposed to wear cardigans and flats, but she was in leather bracelets and minidresses. In hindsight, it was pretty cool, but I'm probably more conservative because of it.

I was with my mum in the shops, a ladies boutique or something, and I was asked what I wanted to be when I grow up. I think you're supposed to say an ambulance man or a footballer or a soldier or something like that, and I told all my mother's friends that I wanted to be Minister for Health. She was mortified, needless to say.

If I make a move, like raise my eyebrows, some critic says I'm doing Nicholson. What am I supposed to do, cut off my eyebrows?

I thought the best thing you were supposed to do was find somebody and try to sound like them.

Someone who does an act. In a democratic society, you're supposed to be an activist; that is, you participate. It could be a letter written to an editor.

Beyonce is very special. I think the super-pop thing that supposedly died with Michael Jackson is still there with her.

Show me a supposedly 'unfixable' problem in Washington, and I'll show you the political corruption standing in the way.

Republicans support opening the floodgates to special interest money and suppressing the right to vote. It's just plain wrong.

A lot of the media says, 'oh, black musician converts X-number of Klansmen.' I never converted one. But over 200 have left that, the white supremacy movements, because I have been the impetus for that.

It's a fact that Anglo-Saxon supremacy impacts other cultures. That is plain and simple.

When I made my Obey logo, it was 100 percent an homage to Barbara Kruger's work and 0 percent had anything to do with Supreme.

Judith Jamison is, like, supreme.

I made 'Supreme Clientele' what it is. Those are my stories, based around whatever they're based upon. It's me.

I've never considered Supreme to be a fashion company, or myself a designer.

We may not be able to control the Supreme Court... but we can control the money.

The court of last resort is no longer the Supreme Court. It's 'Nightline.'

It's hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court.

It's the people's Supreme Court, and we should let them decide its direction.

I am the leading federal judge in the country - the leader in the entire country of promoting women law clerks to get Supreme Court clerkships.

Well, just as the Supreme Court follows the election returns, you can bet that the bureaucracy does as well.

The Supreme Court is not the impetus for constitutional change - we are.

The American people should be the one to decide which direction the Supreme Court will go.