Bernice Johnson Reagon Quotes

So one of the things that happened with integration in the South is they found that the black teachers were much more educated than the white teachers.

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• I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I've got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn't ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
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• Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
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• I am not an angry guy. It's just the roles I do that impact my personality.

  

  Randeep Hooda
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• The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.

  

  Nathan Deal
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• I want a future where my children feel safe and appreciated and proud to be who they are. My heart is one with all the Arab Spring heroes, no matter how small they think their role is. I know they believe, like me, that we are working for a world whereby an Arab can live with the other in a respectful and dignified way.

  

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• What you look like, whether you're Brad Pitt or Charles Laughton, is significant for actors.

  

  Jack Davenport
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• I've had many ideas come from clients.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
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• Fans can never accuse R. Kelly of doing the same thing; I keep mixing it up.

  

  R. Kelly
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• I will only say that many freedom fighters of India found their calling in the institutions of Britain. And many makers of modern India, including several of my distinguished predecessors, from Jawaharlal Nehru to Dr. Manmohan Singh, passed through their doors.

  

  Narendra Modi
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• We never did these kinds of loans that really started this mess, the subprime loans. We just never got into that business. We were enticed a lot of times to do so by a lot of Wall Street-type players, but I, frankly, never understood some of this stuff.

  

  Dan Gilbert
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• I started when I was really young. I was playing with my dad when I was 8 or 9, and I started playing shows then. I had a short stint in a DIY all-girl punk cover band.

  

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• I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.

  

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• Fat Joe is signed to Fat Joe. I have a distribution deal for my label. I'm independent. I'm very happy with that.

  

  Fat Joe
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• When you get to 15 and most of your teachers are priests, there's bound to be a conflict.

  

  Ian Hart
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• One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.

  

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• I have 10 children. I've got my eighth grandchild in the oven with Kimberly. I have all these wonderful kids.

  

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• I have a number of vices, one of which is moderation.

  

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• What plethora of material goods can possibly atone for a waking life so humanly belittling, if not degrading, as the push-button tasks left to human performers?

  

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• Bad, quirky poetry might be better than some of the good stuff, because it really comes from the heart.

  

  Cheryl Hines
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• I did not want to be the best black man of the year; I wanted to be the best man of the year.

  

  Daley Thompson
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• Its a touchy subject, 'cause I never want to take it there, where it seems like it's all about race. But I feel like that's something that comes along with the territory of being a black quarterback. When you have success - 'Oh, you're a freak athlete.' Not, 'Oh, you're a good quarterback.'

  

  Colin Kaepernick
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• The race is your face. Obviously, I come from a mixed background. Who I am and how I look and being black.

  

  Neneh Cherry
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• So one of the things that happened with integration in the South is they found that the black teachers were much more educated than the white teachers.

  

  Bernice Johnson Reagon
  • Black