#hi

I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist. ↗

— Maya Lin

#art #artist #day #did #even

I was probably the first kid in my high school to go to Yale. I applied almost as a lark. Then, when I got there, I was the dumbest person in your class. ↗

— Maya Lin

#applied #class #dumbest #first #go

OK, it was black, it was below grade, I was female, Asian American, young, too young to have served. Yet I think none of the opposition in that sense hurt me. ↗

— Maya Lin

#asian #asian american #below #black #female

Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication. ↗

— Maya Lin

#better off #chinese #complication #decided #era

But I've been there and done that. I'm not trying to prove anything to anybody, and if somebody wants me to come, if they can afford what I ask, it's not as much as Madonna makes; not that I want what Madonna makes, but I was saying. ↗

— Abbey Lincoln

#anybody #anything #ask #been #come

I believe that the fight against crime starts in the home. Parents must take responsibility for their children and show them love and guidance from an early age so they learn to respect the rights of others. ↗

— Blanche Lincoln

#age #believe #children #crime #early

It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong; through Max I met a lot of people too. My first album was with Benny Carter. ↗

— Abbey Lincoln

#armstrong #benny #carter #duke #duke ellington

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#concerned #grandfather #grandson #his #i

We must have black troops, and a limitless number of them too - paid and treated like their white brothers. ↗

— Benjamin Lincoln

#brothers #like #limitless #must #number

But very unfortunately the merchant marine died away till even the majority of fishing done about the Cape is in the hands of the Portuguese who emigrated to the Cape some fifty years ago. ↗

— Joseph C. Lincoln

#ago #away #cape #died #done