Betty Wright (Bessie Regina Norris) Quotes

I have to tell you that I love people. When I see the kids coming up and see what they have done with the music, it's amazing.

Betty Wright

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I don't have to really be in the 60s. Every time I hail a cab in New York, and they pass me by and pick up the white person, then I get a dose of it. Or when they don't want to take you to Harlem. I grew up with that.

Queen Latifah
- Time
- Me
- Person
Unfortunately, terror is now linked to immigration, and anyone with dark skin or a beard or a Muslim name is suspect. Russia, France, then the United Kingdom, and now even Germany have no qualms about going far beyond their borders to strike at the enemies of their countries.

Palaniappan Chidambaram
- Dark
- Name
- Immigration
People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.

Abdolkarim Soroush
- People
- Want
- Know
What inspired me to become an author? I think it was the snow in New York. I looked out the window and I said, 'Well, I have to get dressed every morning to go to teach, but if I write a book, I can stay home in my bathrobe, eat candy corn.'

Patricia Reilly Giff
- Home
- Book
- Morning
I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.

Dana Goodyear
- Career
- Myself
- Poetry
In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.

Jackie Cooper
- People
- Boy
- Living