Pearl Cleage Quotes
Sometimes you have to show them what they want to see in order to get them to show you who they really are.
Quotes to Explore
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Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys.
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One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.
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The Violence Against Women Act is so important. It provides money to train the cop on the beat, to train the judges that this is a new day, that we won't tolerate this violence and to know how to deal with it.
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Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.
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I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.
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In L.A., you constantly go on auditions, and you're usually not what they're looking for - you get used to going back and back to the same show, and nothing happens.
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I feel like one thing that a lot of creative people go through is that they feel like they don't have the right to be creative or to put their stuff out there. I'm glad that blogging from a young age kind of got that out of the way for me.
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I am a Westerner of Westerners!
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I like to think that I could praise the good book of someone I personally dislike. I try not to comment on the person, to be insulting, but I have no trouble being insulting to the work.
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I'm not telling you what to do on the Sabbath, and you won't tell me.
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Never cry over spilt milk, because it may have been poisoned.
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I depend on good editors and a good director.
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Advertising is the price companies pay for being unoriginal.
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Along with racial equality and the late bloom of women's rights, future generations will have to explain how, in the past, gays were misunderstood and publicly humiliated for loving each other, and, eventually, how they stood together and conquered stupidity and hypocritical hatred, and fought their way out of marginalization.
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I do big films just to experience personal satisfaction.
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I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it.
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I would not describe myself as an avid jazz fan and I am not a jazz musician myself. However, that is not to say that jazz does not play a vital and important role in my life.
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I applied for funding to embark on an overseas field trip in Iceland, and spent six weeks there happily holed up in the national archives, museums and libraries, sifting through ministerial and parish records, censuses, maps, microfilm, logs, and local histories.
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He that cometh to seek after knowledge, with a mind to scorn, shall be sure to find matter for his humour, but no matter for his instruction.
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My brother is really, really slow.
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At a time when pimpery, lick-spittlery, and picking the public's pocket are the order of the day - indeed, officially proclaimed as virtue - the poet must play the madcap to keep his balance. And ours.
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Destiny doesn't exist. It's God we need, and fast.
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Hearing is a form of touch. I could hear less through the ears but more through the body.
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Sometimes you have to show them what they want to see in order to get them to show you who they really are.
