Max Roach Quotes

My point is that we much decolonize our minds and re-name and re-define ourselves . . . In all respects, culturally, politically, socially, we must re-define ourselves and our lives, in our own terms.

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• I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Peace
  • Proud
  • Name

• Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.

  

  Ed Koch
  • World
  • Power
  • Fall

• I remember the first time I stepped into the ring at age 16. I loved hitting things... but who likes getting hit?!

  Mandy Bujold
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Age

• Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Truth
  • Imagination
  • Meaning

• I don't make any distinction between a popular TV series or blockbuster film and doing Shakespeare. They're different, but as long as the material is good and the intention is honourable, it's all the same to me.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Good
  • Different
  • Long

• In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • World
  • Art
  • Words

• In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Character
  • Army
  • United States

• I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Long
  • City
  • Grandmother

• While 'Precious' isn't a real person, it's someone's story, and it's too many peoples' story.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Real
  • Story
  • Someone

• I long for a South African society that's free of ideological forces - no society can ever really be free of ideological forces - but I wish it was free of power.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Long
  • Power
  • Society

• Living in Malibu is like being in a bubble, so discovering others that are so different from me has been incredibly gratifying.

  

  Kaia Gerber
  • Me
  • Discovering
  • Incredibly

• Together, we can build a stronger, more innovative New Hampshire, where our businesses can grow, flourish, and create good jobs for our people.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • People
  • Good
  • Together

• A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Good
  • Great
  • Player

• When you're trying to paint a portrait of a very specific world, you're trying to show what makes the world different. So, sometimes it means exaggerating certain kind of aspects, but I don't think it's that important or it's that much of an issue as long as you get an emotional truth across.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • World
  • Different
  • Long

• Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Small
  • Deal
  • Regulations

• Do what you are not supposed to do, like wear white shoes all year round.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Shoes
  • Year
  • White

• I mean, it's fun for us to talk about issues. You know, there's no one issue we spend a lot of time on probably, because he gets to do that all day with somebody else who's a lot more expert at issues than I am.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Day

• We look for people who demonstrate perseverance in the face of challenges, the ability to influence and motivate others - people who want to work relentlessly to ensure that kids who are facing the challenges of poverty have an excellent education.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • People
  • Work
  • Kids

• When you're young, you don't have a lot of control over even basic things in your life - where you live, what you eat, where you go during the day, how you get there. You don't have a lot of control, and that can feel sort of unstable in its own way because you don't get a say in those basic things.

  

  Jenny Han
  • Life
  • Live
  • Control

• As a mother, you're only allowed to talk about the 'good' moments - not the ones when you've had enough and want to be on your own. Or just want to be a woman, not a mother.

  

  Leila Slimani
  • Good
  • Mother
  • Moments

• I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs, and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

  

  George Eliot
  • Life
  • Music
  • Brain

• Because Dickens and Dostoyevsky and Woody Guthrie were telling their stories much better than I ever could, I decided to stick to my own mind.

  

  Bob Dylan
  • Mind

• If you get your body right, you get your mind right, whatever you do, you have a fighting chance, and you have a chance to be victorious.

  

  Bernard Hopkins
  • Mind
  • Fighting

• My point is that we much decolonize our minds and re-name and re-define ourselves . . . In all respects, culturally, politically, socially, we must re-define ourselves and our lives, in our own terms.

  

  Max Roach
  • Mind
  • Term
  • Names