Before I started LimoLand, I mainly bought my clothes in Harlem, where I found clothing my size in fun colors. I still like to go there and see the vibrancy and colors of the neighborhood. I am also very influenced by the colors of my contemporary African and Japanese art collections.
Taking significant amounts of carbon out of our economy without harming its vibrancy is exactly the sort of challenge at which California excels.
The Moon was the most spectacularly beautiful desert you could ever imagine. Unspoilt. Untouched. It had a vibrancy about it and the contrast between it and the black sky was so vivid, it just made this impression of excitement and wonder.
Ghetto-dwellers are the great fantasists. There was an extraordinary vibrancy there, an imaginative life. When you are that poor, all you've got left is your belief in the imagination.
We get to choose how we're going to live - what level of energy, what level of vibrancy, what level of excitement.
Pop culture has none of the vibrancy that you find in the folk culture, where people speak directly to their own experience in the human condition.
She was like a butterfly, full of color and vibrancy when she chose to open her wings, yet hardly visible when she closed them.
I'm interested in color belonging to something, where it takes on a completely new kind of vibrancy, rather than being what you would call straight abstract paintings. And anyway it is so much more exciting trying to find out about the three dimensions of color and sticking it down on a two dimensional surface.
There is something about the light, the heat (physical and perhaps metaphysical), the vibrancy of street life, and the rawness and disjointedness of much of the tropical world that has moved and disturbed me - in places where the indigenous culture is often transformed by an external northern culture (sometimes my own. . . I suspect that one has a few serious creative obsessions in life. I certainly cannot seem to escape this one.
As years and experiences add up and life begins to wear us down, it's easy for the vibrancy of our passion and purpose to fade. . . Never let your best days be behind you. In my mind, they're always ahead.
Vibrancy is only as effective as the mastering of restraint.
She was the reason I was a reader, and being a reader was what had made me most myself; it had given me the gifts of curiosity and sympathy, an awareness of the world as an odd and vibrant contradictory place, and it had me unafraid of its oddness and vibrancy and contradictions.
We need to dream big dreams, propose grandoise means if we are to recapture the excitement, the vibrancy, and pride we once had.
In Madison's famous formulation in the Federalist, constitutional restrictions on government assume that we "first enable the government to control the governed. " If the public authorities can be outgunned or bribed, the vibrancy of the private sector can be pathological.
It happens sometimes that the material itself carries things you have not fully planned. The footage has its own right, its own life, its own vibrancy and energy in it.
We all find joy and radiance and a reason to move on even in the most dire of circumstances. Even in chaos and madness, theres still a beauty that comes from just the vibrancy of another human spirit.
