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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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
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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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What's so great about the truth? Try lying for a change, it's the currency of the world.
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Daniel Masters is a master of the commodities markets with over 30 years experience. His bitcoin strategy is based on the parallels he sees from the oil industry in 1999 to the current state of bitcoin.
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Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive. They are too often praised for being broadminded when they are so broadminded they can never make up their minds about anything.
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Television is the same as the telephone, and the same as the World Wide Web for that matter. People who become obsessed by the peculiarities of these communications media have simply failed to adjust to the shock of the old. People who bleat on about the 'artistic' potential of television qua television are equally deluded.
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Often young black people are looking towards the alternative economies. They are looking towards the drug economy.... the economies that are going to that apparently will produce some kind of material gain for them.
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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.
