Katherine Dunham Quotes
I'd say that anyone who is going to start a minority program to try to think in terms of a big library and some small kind of museum.
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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
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Work is the thing that happens around the game time.
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I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
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I love elephants! It's my favorite animal.
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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
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Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.
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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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Emotional messiness is my reason for life. In acting, it's so important.
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The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides.
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My dad said, 'Cam, you can make this situation a dream or you can make this situation a nightmare.' That struck a fire under me. That was my drive.
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Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.
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'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.
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I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.
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The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.
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The decisions and problems of Uruguay will be resolved by Uruguayans.
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There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
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The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.
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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like the Ark of the Covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.
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Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!
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'Pretty' is most often synonymous with being thin, white, able-bodied, and cis, and the closer you are to those ideals, the more often you will be labeled pretty - and benefit from that prettiness.
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I believe that there are many paths to the same place, and that is a belief that there is a higher power, a belief that we are connected as a people.
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The only issue that I have a problem with when it comes to the new age is the way that people such as myself are diminished by that label. I simply don't consider myself "new age." It's other people's small-mindedness that tries to connect me with someone who, let's say, thinks crystals are the answers to all of life's problems. I never did. There are those who suggest that anyone speaking from a base in California has less to say. That kind of bashing doesn't interest me.
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It wasn’t so bad being a slave when your owner was yourself and stood up for you.
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I'd say that anyone who is going to start a minority program to try to think in terms of a big library and some small kind of museum.
