Pramila Jayapal Quotes
Having a strong race lens means you understand racism is threaded through and institutionalized in all of our systems and our very perceptions, threaded through how someone looks at you, treats you, thinks about you and your potential.
Quotes to Explore
-
Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
-
Fortunately, in the place where I went out, they had set up a little previously a fence which prevented me finally from smashing against trees. I went out with a broken leg only. A small price to be paid at the time for an accident of this kind.
-
For every benefit conferred, God is to be praised in his gifts. Otherwise when the time of judgment comes, that man will be punished as an ingrate who cannot say to God: 'Your statutes were my song in the land of exile.'
-
For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom.
-
When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
-
Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.
-
In 1953, Mom and Dad, living in Toronto, discovered, to their shock, that Mom was expecting. I was born in June 1954. My parents, thrilled, showered me with love.
-
I don't see myself only as a Somali character. I think of myself as an actor, and if the job fits me and I like the story, I will go for it.
-
I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.
-
Common Core results finally give families an accurate barometer of whether our kids are mastering the skills they need to succeed in a knowledge-based global economy, early enough that we can intervene.
-
I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.
-
The wonderful drama teacher at my high school, Barbara Patterson, saw me standing in the hall and told me I should audition for 'West Side Story.' I guess she thought I looked like a gang member.
-
I've been lucky enough to play roles that are not just the preppy cheerleader or sullen emo girl. I've been able to play roles that are really vast and varied and very three-dimensional. Fingers crossed that it remains the same.
-
Every diminution of the liberty of the press is followed by a diminution of civilization. Wherever we see the freedom of the press interfered with, there we see the nutrition of the human family interrupted.
-
In Hinduism, Shiva is a deity who represents transformation. Through destruction and restoration, Shiva reminds us that endings are beginnings, and that our world is constantly undergoing a cycle of birth, death and rebirth.
-
I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
-
Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.
-
I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.'
-
Emotions should be real; one shouldn't come across as acting.
-
Wet Hot American Summer so far is a financial disappointment and money was lost on it. But perhaps it will find its audience in video, cable, etc, maybe over the course of years.
-
A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.
-
In fact, pro wrestling is strong.
-
What's the problem with 'never?' It keeps you from trying. It ensures that you will fail. End of story.
-
Having a strong race lens means you understand racism is threaded through and institutionalized in all of our systems and our very perceptions, threaded through how someone looks at you, treats you, thinks about you and your potential.
