Quotes About Equality

What is a woman? I assure you, I do not know ... I do not believe that anybody can know until she has expressed herself in all the arts and professions open to human skill.

There is no color line in art.

Don't shut yourself up in a band box because you are a woman, but understand what is going on, and educate yourself to take part in the world's work, for it all affects you and yours.

Wanting to become stronger than everybody else has no meaning.

Actors have no color. That's the art form.

The power of art can break the shackles that bind and divide human beings.

Ah, well, do I wish that we lived in a world where gender didn't figure so prominently? Of course. Do I even think about myself as a woman when I go to make art? Of course not.

Democracy: An institution in which the whole is equal to the scum of the parts.

Writing as an art form belongs to all people, regardless of economic class or educational level. . . . A writer is someone who writes.

To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free, These are imperial arts.

I teach young people how the arts can be used to stand up against injustice.

If the culture shifts, if people think differently about women, the art will shift, too. You can't ask art to make social change. It's not what it's for.

Art is something that everyone should be able to have access to.

Little fly, thy summer's play My thoughtless hand has brushed away. Am not I a fly like thee? Or art not thou a man like me? For I dance and drink and sing, Till some blind hand shall brush my wing!

It is in the comprehension of the physically disabled, or disordered ... that we are behind our age.... sympathy as a fine art is backward in the growth of progress.

I think we cannot have a double standard. We cannot see our art as different from the reality. We cannot use two different sets of judgment.

In the martial arts, the guys respect the women fighters.

Diversity is crucial to art and crucial to cinema. That's a very strong European statement: All people should be able to have images of themselves.

Undertake not to teach your equal in the art himself professes; it savors arrogancy.

I think Chelsea Girls is a complete masterpiece and I think Andy's [Warhol] films are equally as good as the art. I think one day they will be considered equal. They aren't yet. They will be.

. . . rock and roll, as I see it, is the ultimate populist art form, democracy in action, because it's true: anybody can do it.

Offer your art up to the whole world, not just an elite few.

I would like to assure those who would serve Daridranarayana that there is music, art, economy and joy in the spinning wheel.

Thou art Justice ne'er for gold May thy righteous laws be sold As laws are in England thou Shield'st alike the high and low.