Serena Williams Quotes

I'm an athlete and I'm black, and a lot of black athletes go broke. I do not want to become a statistic, so maybe I overcompensate. But I'm paranoid. Oprah told me a long time ago, 'You sign every check. Never let anyone sign any checks.'

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• It sounds trite to go after men who are nice but when you've been hurt a lot it becomes appealing.

  

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• Now, I am completely independent - I earn my living by speaking and writing.

  

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• If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about.

  

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• It is a very great mistake, and a very common one, even for well-read persons, to adopt the idea that the progress of the human race in the science of government, in the arts of civilization and refinement, and in the establishment of morality and religion, has been constantly and steadily towards improvement and perfection.

  

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• There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

  

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• Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.

  

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• It would be a great adventure for Leicester to be in the Champions League.

  

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• Sometimes it's hard for us to believe, really believe, that God cares and wants good things for us and doesn't just want us to go off and give everything up and become missionaries in Burundi.

  

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• If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.

  

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• Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.

  

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• I always felt second best. I was never the prettiest, never the skinniest, never the fastest in my sports. Never the smartest, because I have dyslexia. Then, all of a sudden, people were like, 'You're gorgeous.' And I was like, 'What?'

  

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• Whatever big movie I work in, ultimately my concern is my personality. I make sure that I keep it up.

  

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• I have met so many of my idols - like Ray Charles, Brian Setzer - all these cats that are legendary musicians. If they had said to me, 'Hey man, I'm busy,' it would have crushed my soul.

  

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• I'm an athlete and I'm black, and a lot of black athletes go broke. I do not want to become a statistic, so maybe I overcompensate. But I'm paranoid. Oprah told me a long time ago, 'You sign every check. Never let anyone sign any checks.'

  

  Serena Williams
  • Long
  • Black
  • Athlete