John Henrik Clarke Quotes
I understood that my family was rich in love but would probably never own the land my father, John, dreamed of owning. My mother, Willie Ella Mays Clarke, was a washerwoman for poor white folks in the area of Columbus, Georgia where the writer Carson McCullers once lived.
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.
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Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.
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I like that about London. It comes together when it needs to, and it has magic.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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I don't believe love goes away just because you're buried in a casket.
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I was very rebellious.
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I won't give the credit to 'good fortune.' Whatever I have achieved is because of my hard work and passion.
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My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.
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Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
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I don't feel that I've had a life of abuse or that I am a victim in any way. My life is pretty typical of a lot of Americans of my generation who grew up in the sixties in families like mine that were sort of unconventional.
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Survival requires us to leave our prejudices at home. It's about doing whatever it takes - and ultimately those with the biggest heart will win.
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People still say to me, 'What, you still live in Mexico?' I don't have to go to the United States simply to find work, and I don't have to stop what I'm doing. I mean, which Hollywood film beats 'The Motorcycle Diaries?'
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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
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When I was a kid, we got in a cipher and battled each other lyrically. We told jokes and made the hottest dance moves.
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I had thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer, but I gave it up.
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You cannot say we are a healthy, dynamic democracy when one party wins almost two-thirds of the vote.
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I like routine.
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Happy and alone, you say? Reclusive and merry? How oxymoronic! Pas possible! Alas, the concept is lost on so many.
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Family photo albums are so powerful in that they make kids feel valued, cherished and respected.
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I grew up in the same place as my mother, seeing the same trees my mother saw when she was at work; the flowers I picked were the flowers that my grandma planted. We have different styles; I wouldn't make the same clothes that my mum made, or my grandma, but we have the same taste.
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My mother wanted me to be a professor, because I have several people in my family who are professors at university.
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I am taking a break, but not a huge break because the Maiden record is actually happening right now, and I am recording it as we speak, well not right as we speak, but close.
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I understood that my family was rich in love but would probably never own the land my father, John, dreamed of owning. My mother, Willie Ella Mays Clarke, was a washerwoman for poor white folks in the area of Columbus, Georgia where the writer Carson McCullers once lived.
