Ilyasah Shabazz Quotes
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The first thing my writing ever earned me wasn't an advance on a book; it wasn't a fee for an article or anything like that. It was, in fact, a residency at Hedgebrook Farm.
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You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.
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Our founders never intended us to have a professional political class.
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I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I'm still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals.
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I love diamond facials - they leave me glowing and refreshed.
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If my own current husband was suddenly a stay-at-home dad, it would be emasculating. That would be hard for me.
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All I try to do is create an atmosphere that seems comfortable enough, that it removes tension and everyone feels free. If they feel free then behaviour happens, small moments happen and that's what ultimately works the best for me.
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My dad was always interested in characters he didn't understand - he was such a great bad guy in movies. And that is really the thing that calls me to the material often: something I struggle to understand in human behaviour.
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Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism.
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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
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In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.
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I'm a total loner. I can't even answer texts or take my phone with me when I'm working!
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A lot of my friends send me Snapchats of when they're in the club, and they're like, 'It's your song!'
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We live in a culture that's been hijacked by the management consultant ethos. We want everything boiled down to a Power Point slide. We want metrics and 'show me the numbers.' That runs counter to the immensely complex nature of so many social, economic and political problems. You cannot devise an algorithm to fix them.
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On the other side, I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented, is a new low in presidential politics and goes beyond political discourse and amounts to political hate speech.
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I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'
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Fame hasn't really affected me. I have a really close knit group around me, and my sister is always with me, so it's like a bit of a travelling circus.
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Because my parents are Indian, everybody speaks Hindi to me, and I have no idea what they are saying.
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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.
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I am not a political writer. I agree with Stieg Larsson and Henning Mankell, who are social writers. I can't write in that fashion. I am not good enough for that. What I am interested in is family dramas and why we are doing bad things to each other and what our motives are.
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How rich art is, if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never empty of thoughts or truly lonely, never alone.
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I always used to love couture because it was more theatrical than the runways. The runways always felt more like part of the machine.
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Everyone wants me to be this political person... I'm not Malcolm X.
