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If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.

If you're put on a pedestal, you're supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.

I'm not set on a pedestal where I think I'm too high and mighty.

I think that, as African-Americans, oftentimes we have to put ourselves on pedestals as opposed to really looking at ourselves and trying to understand ourselves and become better people. We always have to be on pedestals.

We like to put people on a pedestal, give them one character trait, and if they step outside of that shrinelike area that we blocked out for them, then we will punish them.

I think... I'm perceived as an everyperson. There is no pedestal. I'm no different from anybody else.

We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.

If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society's heroes.

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

I was writing a chapter of Beautiful Evidence on the subject of the sculptural pedestal, which led to my thinking about what's up on the pedestal - the great leader.