Jamila Woods Quotes
I read this book when I was young. It's about a black girl growing up in Heaven, Ohio. The cover has a black girl with clouds behind her. It was the first book cover I ever saw with a girl that looked like me.
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
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So many stars lose their way, and with success become more neurotic, not less so.
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You must always do what you feel is right.
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Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.
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The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man.
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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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I can't see myself just endlessly singing the same songs over and over again.
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It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.
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I would say to an actor new to the business that it's best to go where you are most comfortable as a person, both in and outside of the business.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
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When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
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I grew up pretty much with nothing.
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The whole idea is whatever you do, have fun with it; try to make sure that it's quality and something you don't mind putting your name on.
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As a Member of Congress, I've continued my family's tradition of focusing on education.
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For a long time all I wanted for Christmas were books about outdoor survival. I was convinced that the woods were calling me. I camped a lot, I took classes. At 18, I told myself if I don't live in the woods by myself by the time I'm 25, I have failed.
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Once one concedes that a single world government is not necessary, then where does one logically stop at the permissibility of separate states? If Canada and the United States can be separate nations without being denounced as in a state of impermissible ‘anarchy’, why may not the South secede from the United States? New York State from the Union? New York City from the state? Why may not Manhattan secede? Each neighbourhood? Each block? Each house? Each person?
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I'm not just interested in the pictorial aspects of the landscape - see a pretty place and try to paint it - but in some way to manage it, manipulate it, or see what I can turn it into.
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I started training in martial arts when I was 7 years old. I got my first black belt at 13.
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I read this book when I was young. It's about a black girl growing up in Heaven, Ohio. The cover has a black girl with clouds behind her. It was the first book cover I ever saw with a girl that looked like me.
