Bozoma Saint John Quotes
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I wish my school days could have dragged on a little longer, or that I could go back and do it later in life.
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The second I met Zac, I thought he was a really cool guy. It's hard not to have chemistry with someone who is so attractive.
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On the day when I was shot, all of my friends' faces were covered, except mine.
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War diminishes both civil and economic rights.
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My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.
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In 1995, the Clinton Administration reached an agreement with Cuban government that any refugee caught at sea would be sent back to Cuba while any refugee who reaches the United States shores would be allowed to begin the process to citizenship after one year.
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In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
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I'm a good audience in general, but it's hard to make me laugh.
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To do more of a concert thing, it takes so much preparation. You don't just show up and wing it. You're putting countless hours in the studio, not just to write and produce stuff, but to come up with edits and special things for the show.
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When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted.
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All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No thanks!
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Some of my academic friends think I've fallen from a very special grace.
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To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form – and local human passions and conditions and standards – are depicted as native to other worlds and universes.
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I never learned how to be adequately black. I never learned how to be black at all.
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At no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny, as when we are busy with preparations for it.
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I've got all these great broads in me, all these character women. I was playing a torn-down stripper at twenty-five on Broadway, and now I fit the shoes.
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Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
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I realized that I didn't want to do anything else. Plus, I realized I was good, and, most importantly, I actually loved to sing on stage.
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Remember: if you take bivouac equipment along, you will bivouac.
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In the beginning of my career, I'm not going to lie, before I met Cash and before everything took off, I used to go crazy on them. I used to respond, but then my energy just got drained from it, and one day I said to myself, "What am I doing?"
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With my fiction, I focused on chapters and overall conceptions, while in poetry, I crawled along in the trenches of each sentence, examining every word for a sign of a deeper significance.
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We have to find ways to create content that folks want to see.
