Nia Long Quotes

I've always been raised to love everyone, to accept everyone for their differences, and to just be open. But at a young, a very young age, I realized what racism was all about.

Nia Long

• Young
• Differences
• Racism
• Accepting
• Raised

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• If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Water
  • Speak
  • Edge

• Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Life
  • American
  • Impact

• I always said I'm not disappointed with Obama because I voted for him because he was black, and as long as he kept being black, I was a happy man.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Long
  • Happy
  • Man

• I've never been good at meditation, but surfing is the closest I've ever come to that inner something.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Good
  • Never
  • Meditation

• I live with my mum and my nan. I think I will leave eventually, but not at the moment when they look after me so well. If you came to my house, they'd make you eat something.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Live
  • Think
  • House

• English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • People
  • Believe
  • English

• Together, Amazon and I are giving readers what they want - inexpensive, professional ebooks.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Together
  • Want
  • Giving

• You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Time
  • Light
  • Brain

• I think everybody knows my sound because I'm me, you know? But, on your fourth album, I think you've definitely gotta show growth because I definitely don't plan on being one of those cats that fade off. It's always about growing with me; I grew up over the years.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Up
  • Think
  • Growing

• I can be very self-destructive, but quietly.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Very
  • I Can
  • Quietly

• When you're 25, it's a little bit easier to be daring, especially if you are a pop star, because eccentric behavior is expected from you.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Star
  • Behavior
  • Daring

• No one in my family is in entertainment. They thought acting was a fun hobby, and when I got a degree, I'd settle down.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Family
  • Fun
  • Thought

• There is a tendency to try to dumb everything down and turn everything into a one-paragraph press release or even less, just a slogan.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Try
  • Down
  • Dumb

• I have 18 cars, but I never had a Rolls-Royce.

  

  Ion Tiriac
  • Never
  • Had

• There are a lot of people who helped make Queen Latifah who she is today. I don't forget, but a lot of people do and get big heads.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Queen
  • Heads
  • Latifah

• There's something about singing that I just love. It makes me feel freer than anything in the world.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • World
  • Love
  • Singing

• A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Work
  • Credit
  • Striving

• I plainly told them, 'Be ye sincerely converted, and with your whole heart, to the Lord our God, for nothing is impossible to Him, that He may today send you food on your road, even until you are satisfied, because He has everywhere abundance.' And, with God's help, it was so done: Behold! A herd of swine appeared in the road before our eyes.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • God
  • Heart
  • Done

• I didn't believe in a guardian angel when I was young. I was brought up in the Protestant faith, and the one thing you had over your Catholic friends was that you didn't have those awful saints chivvying you around.

  

  Jennifer Johnston
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Friends

• If you look at satellite photographs of the Far East by night, you'll see a large splotch curiously lacking in light. This area of darkness is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • People
  • Night
  • Light

• It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand.

  

  Olive Schreiner
  • World
  • Human
  • Noble

• What's the difference between Thom Yorke and a pizza? Pizza's not as cheesy and delicious as Thom Yorke.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Differences
  • Pizza
  • Cheesy

• I've always been raised to love everyone, to accept everyone for their differences, and to just be open. But at a young, a very young age, I realized what racism was all about.

  

  Nia Long
  • Young
  • Differences
  • Racism