Sandra Cisneros Quotes

All of my works are performance pieces, as is true for many writers of color, writers who have indigenous roots - because our basis is spoken word.

Sandra Cisneros

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• There are so many more women and men who deserve opportunities. People of color. Period.

  

  Octavia Spencer
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  • Women

• Those differences are what color the performance, but in the movies you don't get a chance to rehearse.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Chance
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• I'd heard he was good, and what the hell sense does it make not to hire somebody because of their color?

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Good
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• Diversity in the industry is very lacking, and equal opportunity comes very far and few between for people of color.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • People
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  • Color

• Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
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• That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Age
  • Political
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• The law serves of nought else in these days but for to do wrong, for nothing is spread almost but false matters by color of the law for reward, dread and favor and so no remedy is had in the Court of Equity in any way.

  

  Jack Cade
  • Law
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• Martin Freeman is a genius, he really is. He gives you every color of the rainbow in every take and it's wonderful just to play off of him and opposite him.

  

  Lara Pulver
  • Color
  • Genius
  • Rainbow

• Nature's purpose in relation to the visual arts is to provide stimulus - not imitation.. .From its ceaseless urge to create springs all Life - all movement and rhythm - time and light, color and mood - in short, all reality in Form and Thought.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Life
  • Time
  • Nature

• Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final word on where your lips end.

  

  Jerry Seinfeld
  • God
  • Important
  • Color

• I've always considered myself a person of color.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • Color

• We believe in loving our brothers regardless of race, color or creed and we believe in showing this love by working for better conditions immediately and the ultimate owning by the workers of their means of production.

  

  Dorothy Day
  • Believe
  • Color

• The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.

  

  Andres Segovia
  • Different
  • Small
  • Color

• I have one thing that I'm saving for my son. It's a 1965 Chevy Impala Super Sport. It's a beautiful sea-foam green color. It's like a teal green, white interior, and it's just a gorgeous car.

  

  CeeLo Green
  • Beautiful
  • Car
  • Son

• I like lip liners over lipsticks. I have so many of them from so many different brands, so I just pick the color that works.

  

  Kylie Jenner
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• As somebody who has been an executive producer on a television series, I can tell you that increasing director diversity is as simple as hiring more women and more people of color.

  

  Lesli Linka Glatter
  • People
  • Women
  • Simple

• I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work.

  

  Alvin Ailey
  • World
  • Work
  • Important

• You know, I change my hair color a lot, I do all sorts of different things.

  

  Kelly Lynch
  • Different
  • Hair
  • Color

• One of the greatest compliments you can ever get is when you make fun of a certain sect of people and they are laughing the hardest. When we did 'Men on Film' on 'In Living Color,' gay men wrote in how much they loved it.

  

  Marlon Wayans
  • People
  • Men
  • Fun

• I started doing sculpture in 1959. I had no commissions then. They were painted, similar in style to the paintings... At a certain point, I decided I didn't want an edge between two colors, I wanted color differences in literal space.

  

  Ellsworth Kelly
  • Space
  • Style
  • Color

• Managerial discretion can take many forms, some very subtle. Individual managers may run slack operations; they may pursue subgoals that are at variance with corporate purposes; they can engage in self-dealing.

  

  Oliver E. Williamson
  • May
  • Run
  • Operations

• I been away a long time.

  

  Ken Kesey
  • Time
  • Long

• I've always been surprised when a straight guy likes me. It's just been like my whole life has been kinda like that. I definitely felt like when I started writing music, it wasn't writing for a gay audience at all. I was just writing for me. But what I say whenever I get this question is my best friends have always been gay, I've always been, as a person, just accepted by the gay community, and celebrated and had the best nights of my life at gay clubs. Always had a fashion sense usually with drag and I don't know. That's just kind of my people. That's just kind of where I fit in.

  

  Alexandra Ashley Hughes Austra
  • People
  • Writing
  • Guy

• All of my works are performance pieces, as is true for many writers of color, writers who have indigenous roots - because our basis is spoken word.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
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