Bernice Johnson Reagon Quotes
There is nowhere you can go and only be with people who are like you. Give it up.
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Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience.
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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
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As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer.
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With ladder matches, you can't expect anything other than craziness.
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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
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In December 2004, I travelled on the road from Uzbekistan across the Oxus River on which the first Soviet convoys had rolled into Afghanistan 25 years before.
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Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
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'Twilight's got some avid - and rabid - fans.
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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
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This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship.
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God bless McNally, it's got some fantastic stuff in it, but it's no easy task to make a movie out of.
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You love for a quarterback to sometimes make the decision as the rush is coming and make the decision as the play, as opposed to where that computer is hitting it fast and he's knowing where to go with the ball at the right time.
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At 39, I was back in a Red Wings uniform and loving it.
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Being gay immediately placed me outside the values of the society I was growing up in. Apartheid was a very patriarchal system, so its assumptions seemed foreign to me from the outset. I've always had the advantage of alienation.
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When I sit down to write a novel, I am exploring my own relationship with God, with the struggle between good and evil, my own purpose.
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It's hard to remember, when you look at a magazine or when you look at pictures of people, and you forget that those people are people like you. They have flaws and insecurities. That's so easy to forget, even for me, as somebody who's sometimes in those magazines.
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No man need go blindly to destruction, for God has given him guidance and power of seeing whither he goes.
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My mother was in the kind of late-'60s, early-'70s origins of female emancipation. And she was very much like, 'You're not going to be defined by how you look. It's going to be about who you are and what you do.'
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How alike are the groans of love, to those of the dying.
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You have only to begin, Lir. Mercy breeds mercy as slaughter breeds slaughter. We can’t expect the world to be better than we make it.
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Countries that managed to rebuild commanding state structures after popular nationalist revolutions - such as China, Vietnam, and Iran - look stable and cohesive when compared with a traditional monarchy such as Thailand or wholly artificial nation-states like Iraq and Syria.
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Hype is a good thing, but it can also be a bad thing if you aren't prepared to back it up.
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We all make deals with ourselves when it comes to the difficult people in our lives.
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There is nowhere you can go and only be with people who are like you. Give it up.
