Jane Elliott Quotes

White people in this country are tweaked. We are raised to believe a myth of White superiority. Malcolm X, in The Autobiography of Malcolm X, said that White people's "belief that they are 'superior' in some way is so deeply rooted that these things are in the national White subconscious.

Jane Elliott

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• I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Bad
  • Boy
  • Misunderstood

• I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • World
  • Change
  • Possible

• My son's a West Point cadet.

  

  Victor Mitchell
  • Son
  • Point
  • West

• I graduated from UC San Diego, wanted to work in film to get my hands-on real experience, did music videos, TV, feature films, all kinds of stuff.

  

  Ziad Doueiri
  • Work
  • Music
  • Real

• To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.

  

  Ian Botham
  • Live
  • Success
  • Win

• Depression is something that doesn't just go away. It's just... there and you deal with it. It's like... malaria or something. Maybe it won't be cured, but you've got to take the medication you're prescribed, and you stay out of situations that are going to trigger it.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • You
  • Depression
  • Medication

• I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Up
  • Country
  • Children

• Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.

  

  Felix Bloch
  • Free
  • Imagination
  • Youth

• No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Money
  • Better
  • Satisfaction

• I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Aging

• I think the key to a great romcom is to not fight against the genre. The trend more recently has been to apologise or be snarky, so it's an anti-romcom. Just lean in and embrace the fact it's a love story, and it's funny, and it's light. It can still be uber-smart and deal with zeitgeist issues.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Great
  • Love
  • Funny

• I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Thinking
  • Think
  • Army

• I have the necessary lack of tact.

  

  Ted Koppel
  • Necessary
  • Lack
  • Tact

• I sold Blockbuster because I saw what was coming: the satellite dish, technology that would make the business obsolete in a few years. Why would people go to a store for a video and then have to return it when they had a dish?

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • People
  • Why
  • Business

• It's my dream, my goal to be good at Olympics, anywhere they are in the world.

  

  Dana Hussein
  • World
  • Good
  • Dream

• Always just remember that you can never know all; you're always going to be learning; there's always going to be something new. I don't think you'll ever have it all figured out.

  

  Iain De Caestecker
  • Remember
  • Know
  • Learning

• The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Truth
  • American
  • America

• On Hillary's side, I don't think it gets more establishment than Hillary Clinton. If I had one word to describe Hillary, it would be 'beholden.' Nothing's gonna really change. Government's gonna have the answer to everything, and that's gonna mean taxes are gonna go up.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Up
  • Think
  • Change

• If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Children
  • Think
  • Parenting

• You can be obsessed by remorse all your life, not because you chose the wrong thing- you can always repent, atone : but because you never had the chance to prove to yourself that you would have chosen the right thing.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Life

• I learned that when you're lucky enough to be surrounded by such talented people that you really become more of an orchestrator of this talent - you're just trying to harmonise everyone's contributions.

  

  Mark Romanek
  • People
  • Trying

• When our Marines, sent to Lebanon on a multinational peacekeeping mission with the consent of the United States Congress, were murdered in their sleep, the 'blame America first crowd' didn't blame the terrorists who murdered the Marines, they blamed the United States. But then, they always blame America first. . . . The American people know better.

  

  Jeane Kirkpatrick
  • People
  • American
  • America

• An understanding is perhaps better than an alliance, which may stereotype arrangements which cannot be regarded as permanent in view of the changing circumstances from day to day.

  

  Edward Grey
  • May
  • Understanding

• White people in this country are tweaked. We are raised to believe a myth of White superiority. Malcolm X, in The Autobiography of Malcolm X, said that White people's "belief that they are 'superior' in some way is so deeply rooted that these things are in the national White subconscious.

  

  Jane Elliott
  • People
  • Country
  • Tweaked