H. Rap Brown Quotes

There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.

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• I'm not religious. I was as a child, and like lots of people, I suppose, rapidly became very disillusioned with the whole thing. I also feel that organised religion has caused far more problems than it has solved.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • People
  • Religious
  • Religion

• The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • May
  • Risk
  • Liberty

• Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • Men
  • Father
  • You

• The disappearance of MH370 has tested our collective resolve.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Resolve
  • Our
  • Collective

• Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • People
  • Me
  • Fame

• If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • People
  • Kids
  • Light

• With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.

  

  Ice Cube
  • People
  • Different
  • Team

• I like to do everything myself - I'm very hands-on with my housekeeping, my children, travelling, how I do things.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Children
  • Myself
  • Everything

• For me, it's always been very essential to work on projects that one can work on almost for their entire life.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Life
  • Work
  • Me

• The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when they are trying to adapt their own book into a screenplay is realizing that a screenplay is a completely different way of storytelling, and it has limitations.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Book

• Don't dress to kill, dress to survive.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Survive
  • Dress
  • To Survive

• Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Me
  • Diversity
  • Helpful

• Billy Jean King could not get credit when her husband was in law school and she was winning the Wimbledon, because he had to sign the cards. You know, you had these cases in the '70s of women who were mayors who couldn't get credit unless their husbands signed for them.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Women
  • School
  • Law

• I think I'm a pretty well-kept secret.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Secret

• I accidentally entered a youth pageant when I was 14. That's like a beauty pageant, but without the beauty. It was terrible.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Like
  • Beauty
  • Youth

• I do what I believe the Lord did, and that is walk in love with all mankind, which I don't see a lot of Christians doing. Christians can be so judgmental that it can turn off people who are considering converting. It makes me a little embarrassed, to tell you the truth, when I hear Christians criticizing others.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • People
  • Believe
  • Love

• I was the girl who nobody thought would ever get married. I was going to be a fashion nun the rest of my life. There are generations of them, those fashion nuns, living, eating, breathing clothes.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Life
  • Girl
  • Fashion

• If people who cherish freedom, who know the importance of mutual respect and are aware of the imperative necessity to establish a constructive and critical debate, if these people are not ready to speak out, to be more committed and visible, then we can expect sad, painful tomorrows. The choice is ours.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Respect

• You spend enough time with someone, you're going to have your run-ins.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Time
  • You
  • Enough

• I'm so proud of my Chinese ancestry, but I was born and raised in America, and I really believe in American values, our American system, our freedom, our liberties.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Believe
  • American
  • America

• I imagine how hard it might be to walk down the runway. Me in heels is, like, deforesting the forest, knocking trees, completely 'timber!'

  

  Ireland Baldwin
  • Walk
  • Forest
  • Trees

• Free speech is not a bogus issue. It is an issue.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Free
  • Speech
  • Free Speech

• For some reason, people find me funny. It's quite hard to define why a thought is funny. It's even harder to define why a person would be funny. It's a word that I can't define at all. But whether I know quite what it is or not, I seem to be it.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • People
  • Why
  • Funny

• There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Me
  • Class
  • Citizenship