Jacqueline Woodson Quotes

I think, even though homophobia still exists, there is much more of a dialogue and a taboo around being homophobic.

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• I think watching Channing Tatum caress his Lego Oscar statue will be something I won't forget. Even if I try.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
  • Think
  • Forget
  • Try

• I don't like to sell my finest pieces.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Like
  • Pieces
  • Sell

• I hate mules. I hate the noise when someone walks with mules. Clomp, clomp, clomp. I think it's very not chic. I don't even like a flip-flop. I don't like this noise.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Think
  • Hate
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• My music is very innovative, in a class by itself. Nobody else is saying anything of value. What I'm trying to do is get people to think, to alter their consciousness. It's not your typical platinum formula for success.

  

  Wendy O. Williams
  • People
  • Music
  • Trying

• Every year, our white intruders become more greedy, exacting, oppressive, and overbearing. Every year, contentions spring up between them and our people, and when blood is shed, we have to make atonement, whether right or wrong, at the cost of the lives of our greatest chiefs and the yielding up of large tracts of our lands.

  

  Tecumseh
  • People
  • Up
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• Jazz is progressive, and it's alive.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Alive
  • Jazz
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• I know what it's like to have an inflated libido.

  

  Daniel Cudmore
  • Know
  • Like
  • Inflated

• Being blonde means people decide on sight that you are much prettier and nicer than you really are, just as Americans automatically add 10 points to someone's IQ when they hear an English accent. Fact.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • People
  • English
  • Blonde

• Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Exercise
  • Innovation
  • Most

• Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Like
  • Teeth
  • Divided

• When I got to New York City when I was 18, I started playing in clubs in Brooklyn - I have good friends and devoted fans on the underground scene, but we were playing for each other at that point - and that was it.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Good
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• Let's just say that I have a tendency if I am uncomfortable in a situation to speak my mind.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Speak
  • Situation
  • Uncomfortable

• When you battle Nancy Pelosi as much as I have, you're bound to get a few wrinkles.

  

  Ralph Hall
  • You
  • Battle
  • Wrinkles

• Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Men
  • Women
  • Stronger

• A slice of hot, buttered toast is the perfect meal. It's not too much and not too little, and it gives you just the right buzz.

  

  Naveen Andrews
  • You
  • Perfect
  • Too Much

• You've got to learn the footwork, the positioning, how to box out, how to pass, how to shoot your free throws. All these things are necessary, not to be the No. 1 player in the world, but maybe you can play against him.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • World
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  • Player

• Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Men
  • Women
  • Morning

• I was never someone that was attached to any party. You know, I've always been an independent person. I'd like to remain like that.

  

  Naguib Sawiris
  • Know
  • Party
  • Independent

• I'm thankful for all the things that this job has given me and my family. But probably the thing that I am most proud of throughout my career is that, not only myself, but my family and the people around me have just been regular people, which we are.

  

  Brett Favre
  • People
  • Family
  • Job

• I'm often reassured in a bizarre - perhaps perverse - way when I find in the archive stuff that contradicts what my assumptions have been. That's interesting and exciting.

  

  Antony Beevor
  • Interesting

• Reverence is fatal to literature.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Literature
  • Reverence
  • Fatal

• The basic parts, the start-up molecules, can be supplied in abundance and don't have to be made by some elaborate process. That immediately makes things simpler.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • Up
  • Things
  • Process

• I think, even though homophobia still exists, there is much more of a dialogue and a taboo around being homophobic.

  

  Jacqueline Woodson