N. K. Jemisin Quotes
Very quickly I fell in with others like me-newcomers, dreamers, young people drawn to the city in spite of its dangers because sometimes, for some of us, tedium and familiarity feel worse than risking your life.

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I love 'Trading Places,' but 'Coming to America' has one of the things I like to do - I like the multiple characters.
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Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
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I want to pursue a career in film.
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The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.
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I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.
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Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.
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I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
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I am proud to be a Sikh and am a true disciple of Guru Gobind Singh, who sacrificed his entire family for the Sikh religion.
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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
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I wish that the Democrats would put some effort into Social Security reform, illegal immigration's reform, tax reform, or some of the other real issues that are out there.
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You who speak languages, you are such liars.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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We have an idea that the man should help pay for the child. But we don't have a law that says a man has to support any woman he gets pregnant. Why is that? Because she doesn't have the baby yet. But if we're going to say it's a human being, then he should be supporting her during pregnancy.
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I always say that things are meant to be and everything happens for a reason, so I don't have any regrets.
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I love men - everything about them: the way they look, the way they smell, the way they feel. I love their minds.
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Grieve not that I die young.
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Racism is not dead, but it is on life support -- kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as 'racists'
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Very quickly I fell in with others like me-newcomers, dreamers, young people drawn to the city in spite of its dangers because sometimes, for some of us, tedium and familiarity feel worse than risking your life.