Isabel Wilkerson Quotes

Well, I'm a daughter of the great migration as, really, the majority of African Americans that you meet in the north and west are products of the great migration. It's that massive. Many of us owe our very existence to the fact that people migrated.

Isabel Wilkerson

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• I don't like talking to celebrities.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Like
  • Talking
  • Celebrities

• You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is balance - a banker with no time with his kids, he's not successful. If he doesn't have time to walk his kids to school, that is not success - that is a mistake.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Time
  • School
  • Kids

• From a gameplay standpoint, I've said for years that hero, fiction, and tone have nothing to do with the idea that choices have consequences. And that's really what I'm interested in. I care about you showing how clever and creative you are.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Choices
  • Hero
  • Creative

• But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • Challenge
  • Acting
  • Loved

• It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.

  

  Madison Marlow
  • Up
  • Country
  • Song

• I'm not worried at all about going to 160 lb.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Going
  • About
  • Worried

• The money factor had been kind of my excuse as to why I hadn't put out any music. So I just found the cheapest way to make music and get it to people, and that was via the Internet.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Music
  • Money

• Ever since I was a child I've always been very attracted to melodies. Whether I hear Jeff Beck, a choir, an ocean or the wind, there's always a melody in there.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Child
  • Wind
  • Ocean

• I always thought I was a pretty terrible actor.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Pretty
  • Always
  • Thought

• It is my policy to deepen the Japan-U.S. alliance and to deepen security and economic relations as well as personal exchanges.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • Security
  • Economic
  • Policy

• Although it's hard some days to wake up an hour earlier to do the gym workout as opposed to other skaters who just show up to the rink, I know that if I don't do it, my day will be much worse. I might as well not even skate, actually.

  

  Patrick Chan
  • Up
  • Know
  • Day

• A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Money
  • Hope
  • Man

• I think the one film that I could watch over and over and over again - and I have - is 'Man on Fire.'

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Think
  • Man
  • Fire

• I try not to eat anything which is too fat, and I can't eat anything which is too sweet.

  

  Ilya Ilyin
  • Sweet
  • Try
  • Fat

• Do you think I'm wandering around all day thinking, 'I must write a song called 'Three Coins In The Fountain'?' Only an idiot would do that.

  

  Sammy Cahn
  • Thinking
  • Song
  • Day

• When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter, And when he cried the little children died in the streets.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Children
  • Laughter

• I can testify to what UNICEF means to children, because I was among those who received food and medical relief right after World War II, I have a long-lasting gratitude and trust for what UNICEF does.

  

  Audrey Hepburn
  • World
  • Long
  • Children

• We made a completely new kind of transistor (the NPN BJT, and in our development work, our researcher, Leo Esaki, demonstrated the electron tunneling effect, which led to the development of the tunnel diode for which he was awarded a Nobel Prize seventeen years later, after he had joined IBM.

  

  Akio Morita
  • Work

• Once upon a time there was a widow who had two daughters. The elder was so much like her, both in looks and character, that whoever saw the daughter saw the mother.

  

  Charles Perrault
  • Time
  • Character
  • Mother

• I've retroactively made all that wasted time rotting my brain into research. It makes me a hypocrite when I try to tell my own daughter, "I don't know, I think we've played a little too much Mario."

  

  Ernest Cline
  • Daughter
  • Research
  • Played

• The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant.

  

  Constance Baker Motley
  • Freedom

• Our own views are not prophecy, but interpretations of the holy prophets of old.

  

  Charles Taze Russell

• Gods die with men who have conceived them. But the god-stuff roars eternally, like the sea, with too vast a sound to be heard.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • God
  • Men
  • Die

• Well, I'm a daughter of the great migration as, really, the majority of African Americans that you meet in the north and west are products of the great migration. It's that massive. Many of us owe our very existence to the fact that people migrated.

  

  Isabel Wilkerson
  • Daughter
  • Massive
  • Migration