Boris Kodjoe Quotes
Sometimes in the black culture, being raised as an independent woman is misconstrued as someone who doesn't need a man. I think that's wrong. I think we all need someone.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.
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Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
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Not only did I get an A in music but I got an A in ladies.
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Over the years, humans have managed to incorporate nearly every element, light and weighty, common and obscure, into our daily lives. And given how small atoms are and how many of them there are all around us, it's almost certain that your body has at least brushed against an atom of every single natural element on the periodic table.
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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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Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.
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I haven't done as many films as I would have liked.
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I've had many ideas come from clients.
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It really comes down to being able to inspire others by being comfortable with yourself. You have to show girls that everyone is different; everyone has things they don't like, but they work it and walk the runway.
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Violence is a big problem. Too many children are dying. Too many children. We must do something.
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And on election night I'd go down to city hall in El Paso, Texas and cover the election. In those days, of course, we didn't have exit polls. You didn't know who had won the election until they actually counted the votes. I thought that was exciting too.
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I love New York. Love it.
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Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere.
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I am a morning writer; I am writing at eight-thirty in longhand and I keep at it until twelve-thirty, when I go for a swim. Then I come back, have lunch, and read in the afternoon until I take my walk for the next day's writing.
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It's a sin to be tired.
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That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business.
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The quality of films out there depends on how much responsibility we're willing to take. I try to play women who are positive and heroic.
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Takes a man or a woman to say I'm sorry, and it takes a fool to walk away.
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My guilty pleasure is listening to Enya in the bathtub. I do bubbles. I do essential oils. Candles, if they're around.
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When we were growing up, we listened to all sorts of music, but the first band that really grabbed all of us live was AFI.
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And death was a soft thing, soft and black, cool and sweet and gracious. He slipped into it as a swimmer slips into the surf and it closed over him and held him and he felt the pulse and beat of it and knew the vastness and sureness of it.
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Sometimes in the black culture, being raised as an independent woman is misconstrued as someone who doesn't need a man. I think that's wrong. I think we all need someone.
