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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Temporary tax cuts don't create permanent confidence, nor permanent jobs.
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I'm just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that's my way of thinking.
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When I was in college, I was in the theater department, which for anyone who has been involved in any kind of theater program, you know that it's really wacky and tight-knit, a real family. Me and my good friends from college would do random shows and plays that were sometimes serious, but most of the time really goofy and funny.
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I became obsessed watching fashion TV shows when I was a teenager and recognized that I had the height and body frame. I especially became hooked when I saw on 'E! True Hollywood Story' how much a model can make and how I can achieve a better living for my family and me.
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There is a certain depth of illness that is piercing in its isolation: the only rule of existence is uncertainty, and the only movement is the passage of time. One cannot bear to live through another loss of function, and sometimes friends and family cannot bear to watch. An unspoken, unbridgeable divide may widen. Even if you are still who you were, you cannot actually fully be who you are.
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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.
