Jane Elliott Quotes
When you say to a person of colour, 'When I see you, I don't see you Black; I just see everybody the same' think about that. You don't have the right to say to a person, 'I do not see you as you are; I want to see you as I would be more comfortable seeing you.'Jane Elliott
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not an aggressive person at all. But I know how to fight.
Edgar Ramirez -
There's the person that's the addict, and then there's the person that's who you are.
Daniel Baldwin -
A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.
Rachel Roy -
If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.
Victor Borge -
For every person that doesn't like you, there's gonna be somebody who does.
Lance Gross -
Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I'm a family guy, so I would love to have a family; I would love to find that perfect person to have a family with.
Lance Bass NSYNC -
I thought Sarah Palin was the ultimate expression of comic outrageousness in a person.
Larry Wilmore -
It's not even race; it's a certain type of person that gets 'Pootie Tang.'
J. B. Smoove -
I'm a really heavy sleeper. When I wake up I'm a terrible morning person.
Flume -
Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism.
Walter Lang
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I felt that Balanchine was my father towards me. He was the person I most admired and looked up to.
Patricia McBride -
He who calls a person a fascist for opposing independence is not only wrong but putting themselves on the same level as those who call us Nazis for wanting independence.
Carles Puigdemont -
I'm a very competitive person.
Fabrice Muamba -
I am an ordinary person.
Frances McDormand -
I'm not cool at all. I'm the least cool person I know.
Natasha Little -
A powerful person is equally cool with their flaws and things that aren't powerful about them at all.
Omari Hardwick
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I'm kind of a self-aware and confident person.
Dakota Fanning -
When, and how, and at what stage of our development did spirituality and our strange notions of religion arise? the need for worship which is nothing more than our frightened refuge into propitiation of a Creator we do not understand? A detective story, the supreme Who-done-it, written in indecipherable hieroglyphics, no Rosetta stone supplied by the consummate Mystifier to tease us poor fumbling unravellers of his plot.
Vita Sackville-West -
Growing up, there were no families on TV that looked like mine.
Laura Harrier -
I'm definitely an underdog.
Daniel Bryan -
I have a hard time doing anything someone else tells me to do! I've always been driven to follow my own path and not be pushed down another lane because some executive thought I could be more commercially successful or whatever.
Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel -
When you say to a person of colour, 'When I see you, I don't see you Black; I just see everybody the same' think about that. You don't have the right to say to a person, 'I do not see you as you are; I want to see you as I would be more comfortable seeing you.'
Jane Elliott