I create my own backstory regardless of if I'm told something about the background or not. There's always more that you can develop in your head that makes a character more layered, more honest.
Regina KingRead
If you have the opportunity for your art to meet activism, you shouldn't pass that up when it comes your way.
Interpretation
Art should actively engage with social issues when opportunities arise.
Regina King's quote emphasizes the importance of using one's artistic talents to address and influence social activism. It suggests that artists have a unique platform and responsibility to champion causes that matter, and thus they should embrace any chance to integrate their creativity with advocacy.
In practice
During a panel on social justice, this quote can be used to encourage artists to take action.
I create my own backstory regardless of if I'm told something about the background or not. There's always more that you can develop in your head that makes a character more layered, more honest.
I want to be around to see my son grow up and to enjoy my grandkids, which means I need to make my health a priority.
A lot of black women still carry a lot of pain when they see black men with women who aren't black, and that's really unfortunate that that could make us so upset. It has to do with self esteem.
It's kind of crazy to think that I've now been divorced longer than I was married, but I appreciate the journey, because it brought my ex and I back to a friendship that helped us become great co-parents.
A Modern Mom to me is not always someone that juggles a career and family. A Modern Mom is a woman who takes care of herself on the inside and the outside.
Sometimes the fragment of a conversation, the color of the sky, the image in a dream, has everything to do with where the song begins.
I shy away from the word 'creation.' In the ordinary, social meaning of the word - well, it's very nice, but fundamentally, I don't believe in the creative function of the artist. He's a man like any other.
Look, Salvador Dali did not paint because he needed the money. No conversation about materialism and music makes sense. You make music and that's that, it doesn't matter why.
Music is my way of taking my mind away from the game. When I'm singing, you don't got anything to worry about. Don't gotta worry about scoring however many points or winning the game. No matter how good or how bad you are, it's fun.
The only way to eliminate any government choice on what art is worthwhile, what art isn't worthwhile, is to get the government totally out of the business of funding.
Who made art history? Not the most reasonable people. The mad men did. If painting is the mirror of a time, it must be mad to have a true image of what that time is. To one madness we oppose another madness.
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