Pearl Cleage Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
In English, the sounds and melodies I created were an inspiration to me, and words came to me as I explored the sounds, and from there I was able expand on the meaning.
-
I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.
-
Over and over I'm on the point of giving it up.
-
'The Pianist' is a movie I could watch over and over again.
-
I never was a popular kid in class.
-
The Negro was freed and turned loose as a penniless, landless, naked, ignorant laborer. Ninety-nine per cent were field hands and servants of the lowest class.
-
I would love to go to the Himalayas and cross over into Nepal to do the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway.
-
I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.
-
When I'm on stage, I'm quite over the top - I'm quite flamboyant and camp.
-
The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
-
If you're going to write thrillers, you have to make a decision if you are going to be realistic or go off and over.
-
From 1999 on - until 2003 - I covered publishing in a weekly column for Wired.com and wrote for several other publications - altogether writing over 150 articles.
-
Religion is the search for ultimate meaning.
-
I know the true meaning of getting by by the skin of my teeth; I do. It doesn't matter whether you've got money or you haven't, whether you're famous or not. This is the case for all women, actually; you have to carry on. You always have to carry on. And you can, because you have to.
-
I'm this overachiever type, I'll just work and work and I'll just do it over and over and over again.
-
All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men.
-
Class is more important than a game.
-
Being human always points, and is directed, to something or someone, other than oneself - be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter.
-
There is a huge reservoir of support for abortion rights from ordinary women. I hear all the time from women who had abortions and say it made possible the good life they went on to have. Social shaming silences too many.
-
I believe we are created in the image of God for a particular purpose, and I believe that with all my heart.
-
Japan's alliance with the U.S. will only grow in importance amid the increasingly difficult security situation surrounding our country, thus I think it is necessary to keep the marines in Okinawa, a geographically strategic location from the standpoint of maintaining deterrence.
-
A screenplay is really a blueprint for something that will be filmed. Therefore you must always keep in mind that whatever you write is going to be staged, for real.
-
With every song that I write, I compare it to the Beatles. The thing is, they only got there before me. If I'd been born at the same time as John Lennon, I'd have been up there.
-
You can't know the meaning of the lesson until class is over!
