Jewell Parker Rhodes Quotes
To me, the pinnacle of my career is writing for youth. I can die happy: I have succeeded in doing what I have always wanted to do.
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Justice is revenge.
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I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.
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Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.
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I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.
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Do we really want Washington administrators coming between us and our doctors?
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The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.
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The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings.
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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.
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One of the most widely read novels by a black American is Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man.' It is his masterwork - it won the National Book Award in 1953 and catapulted my man to the highest levels of literary esteem.
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I believe that I'm a hillbilly in my values and in my attitudes, and I don't want to lose that. I think it's possible to maintain a big chunk of that identity so long as you're self-reflective and meaningful about it.
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
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On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
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Our relationship with Mexico in this regard is unique for us, and in many respects unique in the world.
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In general, being likeable is more about being interested - rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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The substance of what it means to be a geek is essentially someone who's brave enough to love something against judgment. The heart of being a geek is a little bit of rejection.
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There are things that bother me. I try not to let them, but they do.
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I don't think that our European Union membership precludes us from building an illiberal new state based on national foundations.
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I'm smart with my money, I invest conservatively. I don't mind paying top-dollar, but I don't want to get ripped off.
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We are born to exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves.
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There are a lot of idiots in this country, and they deserve representation as much as the next man.
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In writing lyrics - well, for me, anyway - it's about getting into character, you know? 'Who is writing this?' In the case of the original 'Thick As A Brick,' supposedly a precocious, very young child who's fantasizing about his future and the context of all the confusing elements to which school boys are subjected at that time.
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With an economy that is going strong and a belief that tomorrow will be better than today, it may be easier to just shrug it off if, say, an internet service you use like WhatsApp gets turned off by the government as the Communist Party's national congress approaches.
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To me, the pinnacle of my career is writing for youth. I can die happy: I have succeeded in doing what I have always wanted to do.
