Ella Baker Quotes
Both my parents came from North Carolina, in Warren County. My mother had a feeling that there was greater culture in North Carolina than obtained in Norfolk, Virginia, plus the fact she just didn't like the lowland-lying climate there.
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
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Funnily enough, 'Chuck' prepared me for '24.'
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.
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I like being unconventional.
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I certainly feel sad about the alienation from my son.
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While 'Precious' isn't a real person, it's someone's story, and it's too many peoples' story.
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I like dark subject matter. I'm not sure what that means about me!
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Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
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I would love to go back and help rebuild that country and help - you know, kind of like what's going on with Iraq right now. You know, they've got a new government in place. They're trying to rebuild the country. I would love for that to happen in Cuba also.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.
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You never get quite down to the bottom of the barrel, but we are much higher than that at the present time. There is quite a lot left in the barrel that could be explained by them. If they have some weapons, if they have some anthrax, they should deliver that.
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The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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I'm stronger and sassier as a redhead.
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I write entirely in English; Tagalog chauvinists chide me for this. I feel no guilt in doing so. But I am sad that I cannot write in my native Ilokano. History demanded this; if it isn't English I am using now, I would most probably be writing in Spanish like Rizal, or even German or Japanese.
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My refrigerator is full of kale and greens. I can't imagine something greasy, or eating meat.
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The 3-point shot has created a situation in the game akin to 'Lotto' fever.
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I want to create a space that moves people. It doesn't matter if it is a house, or a museum, or whatever. So, it is somebody sitting on that lawn, just going around and around and feeling really happy. That is something that I'm striving for.
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What is held by the whole Church, and that not as instituted by Councils, but as a matter of invariable custom, is rightly held to have been handed down by authority.
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At a young age, I had to give up a lot of things, like being able to hang out with my friends.
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I thought 'I can't be an actor, I can't'. Then this film came up and it was like someone saying to me, 'You can, don't give up'.
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I've always been interested in this notion of what is authentic and how we define that and why our culture imposes certain emotions and emotional constraints onto experiences.
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Both my parents came from North Carolina, in Warren County. My mother had a feeling that there was greater culture in North Carolina than obtained in Norfolk, Virginia, plus the fact she just didn't like the lowland-lying climate there.
