Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Quotes
All my plays have these titles that are oddly tricky. I like that something can look like one thing but mean two different things. Language is really unstable in that way.
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The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
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The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness or maybe a sin or a crime. Gay liberation allowed us to make the leap to being a 'minority group,' which made life much easier.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.
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Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
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I'm just going to go with it for as long as it lasts.
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Growing up, I always wanted to sing.
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I just feel like growing up in Los Angeles, you learn, 'Well you're never gonna be the prettiest girl in the room, so just don't even try.' I mean, I care about being pretty, but it's not my most valued thing.
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For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.
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We have to understand in value what the services of nature are so that we can understand that degrading them is an irreplaceable resource that no amount of money or human ingenuity can replace.
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I know that it isn't just violence against women, it's how do we support ourselves and our families, how do we deal with health care for ourselves and our families? It's a bigger picture.
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Ember Moon is extremely talented, and Daria, from Tough Enough, she's very unique and cool. The fans are going to get behind her. As for Asuka, she is phenomenal.
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I love to run, and I actually run quite a bit.
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Reading is exercise for our brains in the guise of pleasure. Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make us laugh. They make us think. If they are really good, they make us believe that we are better for having read them.
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Giving children a fair chance to achieve their dreams and reach their potential is everyone's responsibility.
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I don't write with a machine. I write with a pen and a paper, which is what is most comfortable for me.
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When women work together, it's a bond unlike any other.
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I was born in 1942, so I was mainly aware of Howard Hughes' name on RKO Radio Pictures.
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I disagree with a lot of those changes, however at the end of the day - I go down to recruit graduation at least once or twice a year.
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Optimism is a seed sown in the soil of faith; pessimism is a seed hoarded in the vault of doubt.
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Athens is a great place for me. It is my second home. It's where I won my first world championship medal, it's where I set my world record.
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It really is no different in the way that we make records and shoot music videos. I don't think of the movie as being a great leap out of my current profession.
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All my plays have these titles that are oddly tricky. I like that something can look like one thing but mean two different things. Language is really unstable in that way.
