Pearl Cleage Quotes

A lot of brothers don't understand. When it comes to making love, reciprocity is everything.

Pearl Cleage

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• Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there's no culture of complaint.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Culture
  • Pain
  • Understanding

• We can no longer apply the classic criteria to clearly determine whether and when we should use military force. We are waging war in Afghanistan, for example, but it's an asymmetrical war where the enemies are criminals instead of soldiers.

  

  Otto Schily
  • War
  • Military
  • Soldiers

• As a reader, coming to my reading as a writer immersed in fairytales, I can't help but notice in so many stories, plays, poems that I read, the sort of breadcrumbs of fairytale techniques, so I'm very excited when I notice that.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Help
  • Reading
  • Excited

• Where most of the country is, well, hot - from the bone-baking dry heat of the desert to the flesh-melting humidity of Kerala in the south - Kashmir is cool: so cool, in fact, that in the winter, the temperatures can sink to sub-zero.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Country
  • Cool
  • Winter

• I really like just super dry comedy.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Comedy
  • Like
  • Just

• For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Know
  • Year
  • Construction

• I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail.

  

  Wendell Wilkie
  • Know
  • Day
  • Lose

• What I like to call 'journalism of depth' is the media that regards the collective conscience of the masses to be its point of departure. It is the media that believes, as a matter of principle, in the potential capabilities of the people and respects their choices.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • People
  • Choices
  • Media

• There's no place like home. And I do miss my home.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Home
  • Like
  • Place

• At school, I always felt the art room was the place where you could sit and talk. It was a place of solace. I wasn't the best artist at school by a long shot; it was more the understanding and the support that came from that room.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Long
  • School
  • Art

• I thought Jimi Hendrix... was just phenomenal.

  

  Carl Wilson
  • Thought
  • Just
  • Phenomenal

• If I still had my legs, I would be in line for a battalion command, and instead, I'm flying a desk.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Flying
  • Line
  • Desk

• If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Film
  • Gun
  • Choose

• I go to see maybe seven films a year at the most, and since I only go to see the best, it follows that I very rarely see my own.

  

  Jack Palance
  • Best
  • See
  • Year

• Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Time
  • World
  • Disaster

• The whole character of Justin and the club life he lives - I have no experience with it. It's really foreign to me, which is annoying, but that's just how it is.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Life
  • Character
  • Experience

• You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • People
  • Time
  • Book

• I think for the last fifteen, twenty years or so, Hollywood has underestimated the appeal of the Western. I think there is still a huge market.

  

  Barry Corbin
  • Think
  • Years
  • Hollywood

• Strauss Group continues to strengthen its future growth engines, improve the company's competitive position, and increase market share, while continuing streamlining processes, improvements, and carrying out organizational adjustments in the company.

  

  Ofra Strauss
  • Future
  • Growth
  • Company

• Because of our belief in being separate, we fall into all kinds of harmful actions and deeds that create more problems for us. Competitiveness is a big one—trying to get ahead of others, stepping on each other. We become frustrated and angry with each other. We try to control others; we condemn them. All of these things stem from one false belief, “I am apart, separate from everything else.

  

  Dennis Merzel
  • Problems
  • Everything
  • Actions

• I was 13 - 14 when I first tasted stardom. In the summer holidays, my dad made me act in these films that went on to become superhits. I became a child star.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Dad
  • Star
  • Child

• A lot of brothers don't understand. When it comes to making love, reciprocity is everything.

  

  Pearl Cleage
  • Everything
  • Reciprocity
  • Making Love