Ella Baker Quotes
Oppressed people, whatever their level of formal education, have the ability to understand and interpret the world around them, to see the world for what it is, and move to transform it.
Quotes to Explore
-
In France, successive waves of Gaul, Visigoth, and Frank have swept over the land and have dominated it. But the fair hair and blue eyes and the clear skin of the conquering races have been submerged by the rising and overflow of the dusky blood of the original population.
-
More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
-
Just because a rapper is white, I don't feel the need to attack them.
-
Public humiliation comes to us all, and never so surely as when we're just a little bit pleased with ourselves and feel, just for once, that everything is going our way.
-
The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
-
The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
-
It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.
-
Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
-
The successful business executive can handle challenges and solve problems at a remarkable clip.
-
I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.
-
Making the 'An Idiot Abroad' series, I was really dreading going to India; I thought I'd hate it. It was a nightmare, and I was really ill - just like everyone says.
-
My parents weren't extremely successful financially, but they were happy people. They gave me confidence.
-
Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
-
I have always loved animals and groomed friends' horses as a child. I think I may have even ridden the odd seaside donkey in my early years.
-
The point of college is more to acquire skills than to acquire domain knowledge. One of the skills that is going to be most necessary: you have to be able to read with rigor and write with clarity. You have to be able to communicate. To make an argument, whether it's in a written piece or in front of a group of people.
-
Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed.
-
The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.
-
The great champions were always vicious competitors. You never lose respect for a man who is a vicious competitor, and you never hate a man you respect. I don't like Rod Laver because he's such a vicious competitor, but I don't dislike him.
-
I would say that when I came into this chapter of my filmmaking career, starting with 'The Fighter,' there was this sense that you have to go from your instincts and you have to go from your gut, and you have to not hesitate and you have to not hedge.
-
The chaperone's job is to make sure no one else has any fun. But nobody chaperones the chaperone. That's why I'm so right for this job.
-
If you wish to be a writer, write.
-
These are the pieces of my youth, the small secrets and the not-so-great expectations that defined my coming of age.
-
We are not the slaves of laziness,
-
Oppressed people, whatever their level of formal education, have the ability to understand and interpret the world around them, to see the world for what it is, and move to transform it.
