Phylicia Rashad Quotes

Let me just say that to imagine racism does not exist is imagination. And to imagine that it does not create its own set of problems is true imagination. So let's not imagine that racism is gone, extinguished, because it's not. We are seeing this in the top levels of the political arena, and we are seeing it very, very plainly.

Phylicia Rashad

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• But when one identifies the Church with a cultural and political bloc, there is the danger of making difficult the Church's contact with all those outside the bloc.

  

  Karl Lehmann
  • Political
  • Church
  • Outside

• Oil has become the principal wealth in the hands of the great Yankee transnationals; through this energy source, they had an instrument that considerably expanded their political power in the world.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • World
  • Great
  • Power

• This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • Time
  • True
  • Want

• I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Truth
  • Think
  • Imagination

• There are many things which swallow up men's thoughts while they live, which they will think little of when they are dying. Hundreds are wholly absorbed in political schemes and seem to care for nothing but the advancement of their own party. Myriads are buried in business and money matters and seem to neglect everything else but this world.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Up
  • World
  • Men

• Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Love
  • True
  • Happiness

• I don't feel the need for religion. But I went on a yoga retreat last year and I do believe slightly in the karma thing and just being good and true unto yourself. And I slightly believe that you can attract good and bad to you.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Bad

• True love bears all, endures all and triumphs!

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • For Her
  • For Him
  • True Love

• For future politics, I don't know what it holds, but if there's a possibility that the people want me to do another political office, again, maybe I'll do it.

  

  Vance McAllister
  • People
  • Future
  • Political

• Every view, and every object I studied attentively, by viewing them again and again on every side, for I was anxious to make a lasting impression of it on my imagination.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • Imagination
  • View
  • Again

• I was scared, because I knew that in the political arena, you have to satisfy so many different types of people at once, and I wasn't sure that I could speak for everybody and be politically correct.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • People
  • Different
  • Political

• My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Great
  • True
  • Religion

• Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Reality
  • Play
  • Imagination

• It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • People
  • Children
  • True

• I'm not registered to any party. I don't really play in the political world. I'm really more interested in getting things done.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • World
  • Done
  • Political

• It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe; but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found - indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • True
  • Poetry
  • Literature

• At some point, a flash of sustained clarity reveals the difference between what someone would have you believe is true, and what you know from the depths of your own heart to the peaks of your soul to be true. What happens after that is up to you.

  

  Aberjhani
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Heart

• I don't rate Heat fans like I rate Knicks fans. We are true basketball fans. No matter what - rain, sleet or snow, or even if we don't make it to the playoffs for 10 years - the Garden stands are still full.

  

  Fat Joe
  • True
  • Basketball
  • Garden

• All those cliches, those things you hear about having a baby and motherhood - all of them are true. And all of them are the most beautiful things you will ever experience.

  

  Penelope Cruz
  • Experience
  • True
  • Beautiful

• Religion is supposed to be a positive thing when you look at the true religions around the world, not the fundamentalists. You always have to go with what your spirit tells you, not what people advise you. I'm a man that will always follow my own path.

  

  Anthony Joshua
  • People
  • World
  • True

• There is no true joy and compassion except through the difficult emotions - all we get without the experience of fear, anger, and sadness are cheap imitations of joy and compassion - pleasantness and sentimentality.

  

  Gabrielle Roth
  • Experience
  • True
  • Fear

• My sister lives in Oklahoma. And, you know, it is so shocking that James Inhofe, the foremost climate-denying senator, is from the state that is so deeply climate-affected.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • You
  • Know
  • Sister

• I'm happy that people have loved my film and my work. I have always let my work do the talking, and I guess I have proved to my critics that I'm not over.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • People
  • Work
  • Happy

• Let me just say that to imagine racism does not exist is imagination. And to imagine that it does not create its own set of problems is true imagination. So let's not imagine that racism is gone, extinguished, because it's not. We are seeing this in the top levels of the political arena, and we are seeing it very, very plainly.

  

  Phylicia Rashad
  • True
  • Political
  • Imagination