Katherine Dunham Quotes
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My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that as quickly as we do is quite difficult enough, thank you.
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue.
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If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
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To this day, I've never figured out a single locked-room mystery.
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By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
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And my mouth is not a sewer, although some people may think it is.
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In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn't do just one thing.
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I always knew I wanted to make my own way; I never wanted to be dependent on my father.
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The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.
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Lyndon Johnson was a profoundly insecure man who feared dissent and craved reassurance. In 1964 and 1965, Johnson's principal goals were to win the presidency in his own right and to pass his Great Society legislation through Congress.
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I know there is something out there, and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad. But I'm not like Shirley MacLaine, who probably believes we were past lovers in another life.
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Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?
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I went from a player who was never fit to a person who actually worked hard to get myself in shape.
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I have born-again Christians in my family, and they are completely against abortion... Everybody's got to stop being afraid of it real soon. Who's going to do it if a woman's network doesn't? People are going to be dying.
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I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.
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Don't try to dress like me or wear your hair like mine. Find your own style.
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I think, no matter what, when you're writing songs, most people write about the extremes of their experiences.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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The list of plane reservations I keep on my phone - it's very, very, very long.
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Kids are born curious about the world. What adults primarily do in the presence of kids is unwittingly thwart the curiosity of children.
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I never learned how to be adequately black. I never learned how to be black at all.
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Music was language in our house. It was air.....I feel certain that if I absorbed any lessons at all in the first months and years of my life, they must have been about the work that went into making a beautiful sound.
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We weren't pushing Black is beautiful. We just showed it.
