Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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Having Black hair is unique in that Black women change up styles a lot. You can walk down one street block in New York City and see 10 different hairstyles that Black women are wearing: straight curls, short cuts, braids - we really run the gamut.
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We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.
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But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
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I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.
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I can't even be around children. It's a problem. My ovaries start screaming.
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A novel - it's also a way of attacking subjects that you cannot confront in the eye.
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There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.
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As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.
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America preaches integration and practices segregation.
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On my first day at Yale Law School, there were posters in the hallways announcing an event with Tony Blair, the former British prime minister. I couldn't believe it: Tony Blair was speaking to a room of a few dozen students? If he came to Ohio State, he would have filled an auditorium of a thousand people.
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You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.
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Music I can discover a part of myself that I haven't been able to for a long time, and acting is the opposite. I'm in love with both of them and I would never choose one over the other.
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I've always felt that the obligation of teachers is to have a huge, broad overview and to provide a foundation course to the students. The long view of history is absolutely crucial.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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I'd rather be dealt with as a person than a persona.
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I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
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I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.
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In a much larger sense, the problem of Sabah is directly influenced by the duplicity of imperial Britain. For whatever devious reason, the dismantling of the British empire created divisions and violence due to ethnic and religious differences.
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Some people talk as if meeting the gaze of absolute goodness would be fun. They need to think again. They are still only playing with religion. Goodness is either the great safety or the great danger-according to the way you react to it.
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I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is.
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The reality is you either step into the future, or you become a dinosaur.
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I care a lot about Colorado. I consider it a state that is helping to shape the future.
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To be good, and to do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
