Dawn Angeliqué Richard (Dawn Richard) Quotes
When I was growing up, there was no one. There were very few black women in tech; there were very few black women in the fashion game. We didn't have our Grace Jones - Grace Jones was before my time. We didn't really have a lot of black women in electronic and punk who were celebrated in the same levels as, say, your big mega-superstars.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.
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I'm happy to fight anybody.
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I got no hate in me.
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I like to keep my private life private.
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The only reality show that I do tune in for is 'Shark Tank.'
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To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This is important because successful struggle demands that there be a kind of social consciousness.
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There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips.
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
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Startups on the inside are always badly broken.
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I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
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Even one's own home is a kind of anthology of advertisers, manufacturers, motifs and presentation techniques. There's nothing 'natural' about one's home these days. The furnishings, the fabrics, the furniture, the appliances, the TV, and all the electronic equipment - we're living inside commercials.
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I've always been interested in any kind of great music, and African music is, I think, the source of it all.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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Small paintings can be fantastic. But you can't often get a narrative out of a small painting. In any case, museums are huge places, and you want to take up some space.
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I feel that whoever isn't feeling settled in their career won't think about their marriage.
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The object of the patrol method is not so much saving the Scoutmaster trouble as to give responsibility to the boy.
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Sometimes a woman's looks or sensuality are too readily wrapped up in their power.
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My parents had to go to Ohio to get married in 1965 because it was still illegal in Mississippi. My white father and black mother.
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I keep reading that I'm cold. But I'm not, I'm shy. And I play a lot of women of fire and sexuality like an animal - so I'm cold on one side and fiery on the other.
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I've been singing about love a long time now, because my kind of love carries a different flavor. My lyrics are not so outrageous as some. You have to think about a lot of different things. You get more mature with what you do - more experience, more capable, you know, the older you get.
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When I was growing up, there was no one. There were very few black women in tech; there were very few black women in the fashion game. We didn't have our Grace Jones - Grace Jones was before my time. We didn't really have a lot of black women in electronic and punk who were celebrated in the same levels as, say, your big mega-superstars.
