Ida B. Wells Quotes
There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
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The Prophet Muhammad himself sought to erase any distinctions between the message he taught and that taught by Jesus, who he called God's 'spirit and word.'
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Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.
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Sometimes people fear the truth. They'd rather not speak to you than know what you really think.
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I've always thought that I'd make a pretty good police officer, except maybe for the danger part. I have a rare medical condition that makes it difficult for me to risk getting shot, so probably I'd have to be one of those officers who work in 'do not shoot' areas.
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I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.
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Exposure makes you famous, not just good work. Famous is being plastered everywhere.
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I feel blessed and humbled that people have loved my music. Nothing would be possible without their acceptance.
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The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.
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I don't call myself a very good Christian, but I think I know one when I see one, and I also think I know when I don't.
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Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self.
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I'm drawn to villains that are three-dimensional and raw and that I can kind of see in my own life.
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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
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When I started out, the idea of comfort in shoes was almost a dirty word.
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I think everyone's experience with a terminal disease is so deeply personal and unique to the person, the context in which they're living and the relationships that they have.
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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
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Cross-cultural marriage is difficult, especially when one person has to live in another country. But I thought there was a very good chance of it working because people grow together if they have a common passion.
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Usually I like playing other people. I like finding myself through other characters. But when you do cabaret, you are yourself. I think it's the most fun, and I tell you, if somebody had told me that, I would have done it fifteen years earlier than I did.
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The crown of literature is poetry.
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I love Comme des Garcons. I think everything she touches is almost like gold. And she does it so quietly. No branding.
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Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.
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There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books.
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Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.
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I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women.
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There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
