Jacqueline Woodson Quotes
I still love Carson McCullers and Raymond Carver and Toni Morrison and James Baldwin.
Quotes to Explore
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There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self. Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance.
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Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.
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I mean, I'm an actor. I do what comes along.
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Out-innovating them is the way to beat China. And to do everything that we do in this country to support innovative policy, that drives innovation and new products and more jobs and creates jobs. You can't - you can't put a wall up around here. We tried that in the '30s. It didn't work.
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I'm sick of running away from things.
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Goal setting will never stop. I will continue to work hard and practice hard and see where things go.
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In all sports, people get competitive; things happen that shouldn't happen.
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I'm a very consistent leader, and people won't find me different day to day. You won't have to have the sort of conversation that says, 'How is she today? Is this a good day to have this conversation?' You won't find that situation with me. I treat people with respect.
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I know a lot of the work that paved the way for women happened before I was around... I was never that feminist girl demanding equality, but maybe that's because I've never really faced inequality.
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It is not logical for art to be logical. Art goes against the grain of the times as readily as it goes with it and at the very same moment. Instead of seeking the nearest exit, art responds to a new situation by uncovering a labyrinth of problems.
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It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true Word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance of good teachers, will bring us to Him.
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I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.
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If I had stopped to listen once or twiceIf I had closed my mouth and opened my eyesIf I had cooled my head and warmed my heartI'd not be on this road tonight.
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You can think clearly only with your clothes on.
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Reorganisation, irrespectively of God or king, by the worship of Humanity, systematically adopted. Man’s only right is to do his duty. The Intellect should always be the servant of the Heart, and should never be its slave.
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'Firefly' was and always will be such a positive thing for me. I hold a lot of really good memories associated to that show.
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WhatsApp has over a billion customers, and they are overwhelmingly good people. But in that billion customers are terrorists and criminals... It's a huge feature of terrorist tradecraft.
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New York feels like the whole city is into dance music. That's not how it felt when I was younger. There was more of a hipster scene.
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I have this theory- that if we're told we're bad, then that's the only ideal we'll ever have.
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As African-Americans, that's what's being played fast and loose with, our citizenship. When you have the Trayvon Martins and the Michael Browns being shot and killed, it's because, on a certain level, there is a kind of mutability in the understanding of citizenship around the black body.
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Bonnaroo is the most significant festival in the country. I can sometimes just get caught up in the moment and listening and say, 'Oops, I gotta go sing now.'
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We stand today on the edge of a new frontier - the frontier of the 1960's - a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils - a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats.
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I'm not an alcoholic, I am freedom fighter against the teetotal taliban.
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I still love Carson McCullers and Raymond Carver and Toni Morrison and James Baldwin.
