David Shields Quotes

Denied dancing and musical instruments, slaves expressed a hidden tradition of musicality and poetics by tongue and signal.

David Shields

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• Beauty is not just a white girl. It's so many different flavors and shades.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Different
  • Girl
  • Beauty

• Inspired by Alex Haley's 'Roots,' at the age of 11 I began a handwritten Middle Passage story called 'Lawdy, Lawdy, Make Us Free.' I was raised by civil rights activists with a very strong sense of racial history and consciousness.

  

  Tananarive Due
  • History
  • Age
  • Free

• I feel like we can learn from each other by us, being the young generation, giving knowledge to the older guys.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Giving
  • Knowledge
  • Learn

• Let us therefore be of a reverent spirit, and fear the long-suffering of God, that it tend not to our condemnation.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • God
  • Long
  • Fear

• Folks, I've been straight for seventeen days... Not all in a row.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Days
  • Straight
  • Seventeen

• It is hard to look away from the swirl of media that the untimely and tragic death of Heath Ledger has engendered, and the Internet has jacked the frenzy into overdrive.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Death
  • Internet
  • Media

• He's going to be around a long, long time, if his body holds up. That's always a concern with a lot of players because of how much they play. A lot of guys can't handle it. But it looks like he can.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• I think 'Tap Dogs' has lasted so long because people have a natural interest in tap dancing. This form of dancing can't be dated, it's such an intriguing form of dance because the feet are also an an instrument.

  

  Adam Garcia
  • People
  • Long
  • Dance

• I'm very competitive, and I want to win.

  

  Camilo Villegas
  • Want
  • Win
  • Competitive

• If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Country
  • Hope
  • Friend

• Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women

• Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.

  

  Tcheky Karyo
  • Life
  • Comedy
  • Humor

• Whence it is somewhat strange that any men from so mean and silly a practice should expect commendation, or that any should afford regard thereto; the which it is so far from meriting, that indeed contempt and abhorrence are due to it.

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • Men
  • Practice
  • Silly

• Double J is similar in age, we're similar in experience. I think if we hooked up, we could be a formidable team. We get along well inside the ring and outside the ring.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Age

• Those of us who are blessed, we owe it to our fellow citizens and folks who we are around to do something special for them.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Blessed
  • Something
  • Special

• Well, many of us believe that excessive media concentration is a subject that ought to be addressed, and it is, of course, the intention of the majority party not to allow that to be discussed.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Believe
  • Party
  • Intention

• 'Mvula' is my married name, but for some reason my nan calls me 'McVula.' I'm not sure if it's one of those jokey Caribbean things, or whether she's just getting it wrong.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • She
  • Me
  • Name

• All eyes are on you when you're modeling and acting, and I just didn't want the attention when I wasn't working. But as I've gotten older, I've become more comfortable with my body and am taking more fashion risks.

  

  Carey Lowell
  • Attention
  • Eyes
  • Fashion

• I'm starting to think my narrators' sentences are getting too big for them, and they are getting to sound a bit samey and, more disturbingly, a bit too much like me.

  

  Anne Enright

• The typographic logic created 'the outsider,' the alienated mass, as the type of integral, that is, intuitive and irrational, man. (p. 241)

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Logic

• If watching your child die is a parent's worst nightmare, imagine having to tell your other child that his sister is dead... Although I am certain that he cried, that we all cried, what I remember more is how we collapsed into each other, as if the weight of our loss literally crushed us.

  

  Ann Hood
  • Remember
  • Die
  • Sister

• I'm not sure it's the stimulus money that will necessarily allow the economy to recover. It will help to fortify our budgets, frankly, to ensure that there isn't as much backsliding in the areas of education and healthcare, for example.

  

  Jon Huntsman, Jr.
  • Money
  • Help
  • Education

• Denied dancing and musical instruments, slaves expressed a hidden tradition of musicality and poetics by tongue and signal.

  

  David Shields