Jacqueline Woodson Quotes
My mom was very strict. And we were very religious. So I knew that I was not allowed to do the wrong thing. And I knew that I had a home I could run to. And I had a mom.
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All the marketing and advertising sells the book as what it is and hopes that the book will be displayed so that your readers can find it.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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I love the game and I am so lucky to be able to do what I love.
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Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.
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Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.
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I'm a realist and I always have been. Quality training is what I do now; before it was a combination of both quality and quantity. Now I'm not trying to be a world-class athlete, I don't need to train at that level. It's about being fit, fit for life.
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I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.
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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.
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At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
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I go to a regular school still, and I have the normal life of a regular kid.
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Everything must be carried out in extreme sobriety.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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This is my first wuxia movie and I must consider this before trying to make something with my own.
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My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
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Making music is fantastic.
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The question for immigration reform is not if we'll get it done, it's when we'll get it done. It's going to get done.
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So, from a very young age, my mom tells me that I wanted to be Michael J. Fox. I didn't want to be an actor. I just wanted to be Michael J. Fox for awhile. And then, I realized that he was an actor, so I pursued that.
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If you disagree with me about a position I have taken, or what I've done, tell me, argue with me, debate. Sometimes, right and good are not that clear; at other times, it is only deliberate and respectful debate that leads us to understand what road we should take.
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I'm not one of the guys in the league for the fame. I'm here so I can take of my family, my mom, my friends and take care of myself.
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Sometimes I not only stand there and take it, I even smile at them and say I'm sorry. When I feel that smile coming onto my face, I wish I could take my face off and stamp on it.
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There's a great joy in my giving. It's thrilling. It's exhilarating. It's important to be a part of sharing. It is my love. It is my joy.
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I mostly play my dynasty or against someone in the hotel. I don't really like online games. I can't stand people yelling in my ear over a headset. I'd rather just play someone like Dwight Howard out in Orlando or people back home. For games like that, it's cool, but just signing on and playing random people, I hate it.
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My mom was very strict. And we were very religious. So I knew that I was not allowed to do the wrong thing. And I knew that I had a home I could run to. And I had a mom.
