It is sometimes tougher to fight my superiors than the French.
The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way... style.
There are no desperate situations, there are only desperate people.
When I go to Africa and spend more time there with people who are the least of the least, those in desperate situations, I am broken by it. But I also find people with so much more joy and freedom living with nothing than I see walking down the streets of my own community here in Tennessee.
In my work in Haiti, I've seen the hugely positive effects that happen when people come together to build something in the middle of the most desperate situations.
Jumping through any hoop or taking advantage of any desperate situation that comes up just to sell a product is harmful. It is.
There arc no such things as desperate situations. Only desperate men.
Like an animal caught in a trap, trying to gnaw off its own leg, a woman who seeks abortion is trying to escape a desperate situation by an act of violence and self-loss. Abortion is not a sign that women are free, but a sign that they are desperate.
What is it like being single? I like it! I like starting each day with a sense of possibility. And I'm optimistic, because everyday I get a little more desperate. And desperate situations yield the quickest results.
If the tanks succeed, then victory follows.