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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I get sick all the time because I get no rest and sleep, but it's definitely worth it.
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In the case of a man and a woman accused of committing a crime together, both will often agree to the man taking the rap-despite the man being more likely to receive a longer sentence and more likely to be raped in prison. If blacks were agreeing to do that for whites, the black community would be smart enough to call that ‘learned subservience.’
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He was an innovator, an experimenter, a missionary in bringing the gospel of good cooking to the home table.
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At the time of the formation of the euro, I would say most American economists said that's not a good idea; that's not a currency area that makes sense. And the answer from Europe was, 'How is Missouri and Mississippi a currency area?' But the flaw in that was not recognizing the importance of mobility.
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Just because we can't find a solution it doesn't mean that there isn't one.
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We weren't pushing Black is beautiful. We just showed it.
