Malcolm X Quotes
The young whites, and blacks, too, are the only hope that America has, the rest of us have always been living in a lie.
Quotes to Explore
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When I initially moved to the city, I had to stay in hotels for almost two years. I was fed up of that life, and it was then that I decided that I wanted a home in the city, so I shifted base permanently.
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I love engaging in conversation with other moms because we can relate to one another, and we swap valuable insight and information.
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I can spend 10 to 15 minutes with someone, and they can tell me what they're going through. I may never have gone through that, but I get it on a really deep level.
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I try to do my best.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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You can't write a story about a mental hospital in the United States without facing the grand example of 'Cuckoo's Nest.'
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'Islamism' itself is such a broad and nearly meaningless word as used by the mainstream Western press, including everything from Turkey's AKP party to al Qaeda.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger, I don't know if you'd call him a great actor, but he's amazing in terms of his presence, and he is interesting enough that you want to watch him.
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Teenagers are some of the most passionate, dynamic and creative people I know. Yet, too often, this creative spark is left to flicker precariously and sometimes fade entirely.
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Will I miss Gandalf? Well, I don't miss him, because people are constantly coming up to me mentioning him and talking about him, so I don't feel that I've lost contact.
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
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My personal trainer is an ex-dancer so we do a lot of ballet and jazz.
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Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.
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One of the reasons I've never done intensive psychotherapy or any of that stuff is that if there's anything in me that needs fixing, I want to know that I can rely on my own intuition to fix it.
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To generate creative ideas, it's important to start from an unusual place. But to explain those ideas, they have to be connected to something familiar.
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A lovely nook of forest scenery, or a grand rock, like a beautiful woman, depends for much of its attractiveness upon the attendance sense of freedom from whatever is low; upon a sense of purity and of romance.
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I just worked my own personal thoughts into my music, and just kept at it until I found a way in.
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Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.
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When I started formulating the first Frank comic, I knew I wanted it to be something that was beyond time and specific place. I felt that having the characters speak would tie it to 20th-century America, because that would be the idiom of the language they would use, the language I use.
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All Freemasonry should be disbanded in America because our organization has been infiltrated by the Illuminati and they have bad intention for America and the World.
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But the mind travels far - and mysteriously - in sleep.
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One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.
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I love 'The Sportswriter' by Richard Ford. Ford really captures for me the bittersweetness of the quietly suffering American man. It's stoic, sad, and really beautiful.
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The young whites, and blacks, too, are the only hope that America has, the rest of us have always been living in a lie.
