Quotes About Influence

The way that identity has been commercialised through movies and TV, and now through social networking, means we're all sort of working to a script, a collective idea of what needs to happen next.

The word may be mightier than the sword, but except for the s they are pretty much the same. Both are used to kill--and to save.

The genesis of some of this thinking might have been the words of Thomas Jefferson in his influential and widely circulated 1785 book Notes on the State of Virginia. Though he was not a doctor or scientist, Jefferson cataloged the physiological ways Black bodies differed from white bodies in this 244-page document.

He is a breaker of things and people

I was astonished at the effect my successful landing in France had on the nations of the world. To me, it was like a match lighting a bonfire.

Growing up I always shopped at Victoria's Secret with my mom and saw Angels like Gisele and Karolina Kurkova in the windows.

Say 'no' more than 'yes ' and just make sure you surround yourself with good people.

'Tis the mind must guide the hand.

Most teachers at the National Academy of Design discouraged students from visiting "291", lest they be influenced by radical American painters such as John Marin and Abraham Walkowitz, whose disregard for accurate form and color outraged the traditionalists.

popular men who laugh at your jokes pose a threat which blatant villains can never command.

The politics of judges is getting to be red hot.

Angels invite themselves, but you invite your own demons.

My dad is my hero, and the only Black person I knew that wasn't a nigger.

Somebody armed with the QQ proof can literally charge the world.

There are only two ways to look at history: people either make things happen, or they let things happen. In that sense, all of history is bipolar; cognate of goodwill and bad fortune. Both philosophies, together, importune a reshaping of destiny.

They call me 'Big Link' not because I'm a big guy, but because I do big things.

This world leaves the Black man with no choice but to dominate it.

You must be who you are - that which you tell yourself and what you've convinced others to believe.

It's not the work or the personality of the founder of a religion that's important, but what its followers do with what they learn.

Music's always part of my writing. I think all art is interconnected. You can't create or experience one without its influences bleeding into another. In my writing, music's mostly something that feeds my inspiration and mood while I'm writing, but it's also taught me how to score scenes and even novels. The rise and fall of the storyline echoes the flow of a good piece of music.

Er) hat in unbegreiflicher Verblendung übersehen, daß ein Mensch auch ohne selbstständige Ideen und ohne Persönlichkeit in dem Augenblick Wesen und Inhalt annimt, in dem man Macht auf ihn überträgt.

I am a bundle of other people's histories, a creature of circumstance.

Discomfort begets discomfort in others.

I mean when I was a kid, parents called the shots. Now I'm a parent, kids call the shots. So we get fucked coming and going. I can't believe this.