Jessica Williams Quotes
Race affects everything that I do, and everything that I create speaks to intersectionality.
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As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic.
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I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.
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I was a little adult for my age as a teenager, and I didn't feel like I socially fit in with my peers.
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I love to be in the position of not knowing what I'm gonna do, but having rehearsed all of those so when something happens with the others actors I go with whatever that is I'm getting.
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Oh, my dating skills are the worst. No, I pick the wrong men; it's amazing. I am awful, the worst dater.
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America thrives on identity politics, left and right. But France is opposed to the idea. Since the Revolution, the French have enthroned the idea of universalism. All of us must be equal before the law as abstract individuals, and that extends to the arts.
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Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
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There seems little reason to prescribe anti-depressant medication to any but the most severely depressed patients.
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Life is just a set of experiences. As long as there are new experiences for me in a corporate job, I don't think I have to be an entrepreneur.
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Winning is no longer just the outcome. It's part of the process.
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I don't believe in hitting a bad shot and then insisting it's no big deal. No, you just messed up, so react. I'm not saying you need to throw your club. I mean, take 10 seconds to get angry at yourself, but then start over.
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I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.
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In American fertility clinics, 75 percent of couples are requesting girls and not boys.
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I'm just focused on exploring new opportunities.
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Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.
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In my heart, I'm an Alabaman who went up north to work.
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Southern Europe has not done enough to enhance its competitiveness, while northern Europe has not done enough to boost demand. Debt burdens remain crushing, and Europe's economy remains unable to grow.
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I believe Saudi Arabia is the only Muslim country in which churches are prohibited.
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The entire universe is perfused with signs, if it is not composed exclusively of signs.
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I don't take off my nail polish when I go home because I'm too lazy, and they're fine with it. Maybe the checkout at the grocery store's not so great with it, but they're fine with it. The distrust, the phobias, those are learned, those are taught. But the natural grace is to understand and to love.
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Just promise me you'll think of me everytime you look up in the sky and see a star
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Our struggle does not end so long as there is a single human being considered untouchable on account of his birth.
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The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
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Race affects everything that I do, and everything that I create speaks to intersectionality.
