Philomena Kwao Quotes
My hair is extremely dry and fragile, so moisture is key. I love black castor oil, shea butter, and lots of water.
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I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got the job there through doing stand-up on Fallon.
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Thanks to aid, a distressing number of African leaders care little about what their citizens want or need - after all it's the reverse of the Boston tea-party - no representation without taxation.
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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Christ imparts the capacity of conquest to our lives every single day that we are willing to believe Him.
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It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.
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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
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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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I'm a big fan of all those singing competition shows.
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I love the intimacy of venues like the House of Blues. When everyone is packed in and so close to you, it makes you play differently. It's so much more fun to play because there's so much more high energy in a place like that.
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All the Junos, the Grammy nominations, the gold and platinum records, did nothing to assuage my conviction that I was an out-and-out loser.
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I realise that, strutting around in power corridors for political coverage, a journalist becomes half a politician.
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I remember once giving my dad some drawings and writings and said, 'If you could just give these to the publisher, that would be great.' And I was about five!
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In this life, all you need is for someone to believe in you.
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There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.
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We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
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I'm not somebody who is going to build something for a few years, sell it, and then go off and just have fun.
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The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
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I'm a huge fan of Jesus Culture. I absolutely love them. I listen to them a lot. My wife loves them as well. I'm unashamedly a Jesus Culture fan. I love the spontaneity. They'll play a song and it will go for like 25 minutes. That kind of worship, and how they lead people into the presence of God, is just awesome.
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If I had said, "I don't stand a chance," one thing is clear: I wouldn't have.
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As a black woman, I have no particular interest in maintaining the status quo. Why would I? The status quo is harmful; the status quo is significantly racist and sexist and a whole bunch of other things that I think need to change.
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I can't imagine anything more important than air, water, soil, energy and biodiversity. These are the things that keep us alive.
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My hair is extremely dry and fragile, so moisture is key. I love black castor oil, shea butter, and lots of water.
