Jean Toomer Quotes
Superstition sawSomething it had never seen before:Brown eyes that loved without a trace of fear,Beauty so sudden for that time of year.
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I'm beginning to get pigeonholed as the girl who plays the crazies and weirdoes - and that's not the entirety of who I am. Hopefully, the whole point of being in this profession is that you change into anyone you want to be.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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Hollywood can be a really tough environment for anyone trying to make a living. Unfortunately for actors of color, namely Asian Americans, opportunities have been and remain substantially limited. One place this is not the case is on 'Hawaii Five-0,' where we have three Asian American series regulars and a landscape rich with diversity.
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Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
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For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's everyday-life music. Let's see jazz musicians continue to use the materials, the tools, the spirit of the actual time that they're living in, as what they build their lives as musicians around.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
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When we see that our problem is so complicated and so all-encompassing in its intent and content, then we realize that it is no longer a Negro problem, confined only to the American Negro; that it is no longer an American problem, confined only to America, but it is a problem for humanity.
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A runner's stride is not perfectly efficient.
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You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!
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I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.
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I was a theater major at Northwestern University and won a role in a play called 'Mr. Marmalade' after I graduated.
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You have to stay alert. You've got to keep raising your game.
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In the meantime, we see there are charities that spend much of their scarce resources that should be going directly to the children to overcome this gulf that separates them from both the donors and the needy.
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When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
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Every time I go to the market, Andy says, 'Don't forget the Triscuits!'
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A weak people and its equally debilitated leaders are bludgeoned by history. It maims them into the cripples that they are meant to be.
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If man was the relative of animals, then animals were the relatives of man, and in degrees bearers of that inwardness of which man, the most advanced of their kin, is conscious in himself.
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Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.
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Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.
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The American people need no course in philosophy or political science of church history to know that God should not be made into a celestial party chairman.
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I began writing 'Matterhorn' in 1975 and for more than 30 years I kept working on my novel in my spare time, unable to get an agent or publisher to even read the manuscript.
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It took me a long time to find my own voice, even after I started making my own music.
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Superstition sawSomething it had never seen before:Brown eyes that loved without a trace of fear,Beauty so sudden for that time of year.
