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.
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I don't like to sell my finest pieces.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Jazz is progressive, and it's alive.
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I know what it's like to have an inflated libido.
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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.
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Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative.
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Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.
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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.
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Let's just say that I have a tendency if I am uncomfortable in a situation to speak my mind.
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When you battle Nancy Pelosi as much as I have, you're bound to get a few wrinkles.
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Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women.
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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.
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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.
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Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard.
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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.
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All forms of power - even based on the consensus of the democratic system - react when they are being attacked, or when those who exercise power become a target.
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I'm not familiar with an unaccepting family. But in my profession, nothing can be foreign.
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I went to high school with girls that would daydream about what strip club they wanted to work at. That's one of the sad things about Vegas.
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After being nearly eradicated from the lower 48 states by the 1960s, bald eagles were re-introduced to the Adirondacks in the 1980s, and I'm proud to report the view from my home indicates they are flourishing in upstate New York.
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The Chinese economy's still not that much of a consumer economy.
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I think, even though homophobia still exists, there is much more of a dialogue and a taboo around being homophobic.
