The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be... →
Berenice Abbott
If I like a book, I tend to read the author's entire collection. But I choose mainly through personal recommendations, general word of mouth and... →
Randa Abdel-Fattah
The word 'leukemia' is a very frightening word. In many instances, it's a killer and it's something that you have to deal with in a... →
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that... →
Lascelles Abercrombie
My mother was a member of the Cape Coloured community. 'Coloured' is the South African word for the half-caste community that was a... →
Peter Abrahams
I prefer the word 'homemaker' because 'housewife' always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.
Bella Abzug
An artist, in my understanding of the word, should side with the people against the Emperor that oppresses his or her people.
Chinua Achebe
I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his powerless subjects. That's... →
When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of... →
Ansel Adams
I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.
John Adams