"average human “looks without seeing, listens without..." - Quote by Leonardo Da Vinci

“The variety of colour in objects cannot be discerned at a great distance, excepting in those parts which are directly lighted up by the solar rays.”

“Truth was always but the daughter of time.”

“He who despises painting has no love for the philosophy in nature.”

“It is the law of love that rules mankind.”

“Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts - a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments.”

“There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of the field; and sometimes, if the stock be good, there springs up for a time a succession of splendid men; and then comes a period of barrenness.”

“If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat. It is an unnecessary insult.”

“Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light.”

“Consciousness is a vast ocean and thinking is the waves & ripples on the surface of the ocean.”