Shirley Chisholm (Shirley Anita Chisholm) Quotes

The minorities have been confined to the city by a moat of bigotry.

Shirley Chisholm

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• I am very happy since when I am in different cities I can experience and learn different cultures!

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Experience
  • Happy
  • Cities

• Touring is very grueling. It's very taxing on the body and living out of your suitcase, going from city to city, night after night. It's a tough job.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Job
  • Night
  • City

• Liberals in blue states working in blue enclaves within blue cities that are producing the media, don't even see that their positions fit on the spectrum as left of center.

  

  Andrew Breitbart
  • Blue
  • Media
  • Cities

• The Beethoven Experience provided the opportunity to solidify the relationship between the Orchestra and me, the Orchestra and me and the public, between all of us and the city of New York, because Beethoven after all is a really amazing point of reference.

  

  Lorin Maazel
  • Experience
  • Opportunity
  • Relationship

• Where does one go in a tremendous city like Calcutta to find insider information? I recalled India's golden rule: do the opposite of what would be normal anywhere else.

  

  Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi
  • City
  • Travel
  • Cities

• Remove justice, and what are kingdoms but gangs of criminals on a large scale?... A gang is a group of men... in which the plunder is divided according to an agreed convention. If this villainy... acquires territory, establishes a base, captures cities and subdues people, it then openly arrogates to itself the title of kingdom.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • People
  • Men
  • Justice

• What's great about this hotel [Sheraton Universal Hotel in Universal City, CA] is that I stayed here for a month when I was competing on the Oprah reality show. So it's like coming home.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Great
  • Home
  • Reality

• New York! I've always wanted to see it and now I've see it. It's true what they say-- it's the most wonderful city in the world.

  

  Betty Smith
  • World
  • True
  • City

• A farm is an irregular patch of nettles bounded by short-term notes, containing a fool and his wife who didn't know enough to stay in the city.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • City
  • Wife
  • Fool

• In a one-woman show, there must be compelling material that you adore. In both of these there are conversations with you and another character. My Second City (improvisation) background comes in very handy for accent and body posture.

  

  Valerie Harper
  • Character
  • City
  • Body

• Hosts of merchants encumber the cities, and the streets are cluttered with solicitors who swarm without limit or purpose.

  

  Charles Fourier
  • Purpose
  • Cities
  • Merchants

• Because of my acting career, I've had to bounce from city to city and get in the groove in the studio.

  

  LeToya Luckett Destiny's Child
  • Career
  • City
  • Acting

• The country is the world of the soul, the city is the world of bodies.

  

  Bahá'u'lláh
  • World
  • Country
  • Soul

• Humans turn the places they live into great crowded piles of mud and stone, like the nests termites build--but what happens when in all the world there are termite hills left but no bush?

  

  Tad Williams
  • World
  • Great
  • Live

• Philly is a state of mind I’m always in. The city is truly a character in its own right, and it’s served me well because the people I was exposed to gave me that cultural rootedness.

  

  M. K. Asante
  • People
  • Mind
  • Character

• probably for every man there is at least one city that sooner or later turns into a girl. how well or how badly the man actually knew the girl doesn’t necessarily affect the transformation. she was there, and she was the whole city, and that’s that

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Men
  • She
  • Girl

• I don't think restaurants should refuse to serve minority people. They are quite tasty when prepared correctly.

  

  Zach Braff
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Minorities

• Any visitor to an historic country town or city quickly becomes aware in his or her peregrinations that the most attractive houses in the centre are invariably the offices of lawyers.

  

  P. D. James
  • Country
  • City
  • Cities

• In the wiretapping, despite all the momentum for a more assertive Congress, you're seeing Congress backing down, because there are many Republicans and even Democrats who are afraid of being seen as preventing the president from protecting the nation.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • President
  • Republican
  • Democrat

• I am not one of the people who believe that the main reason why a chap becomes a bookmaker is because he is too scared to steal and too heavy to become a jockey.

  

  Noel Whitcomb
  • Reason
  • Jockey
  • Bookmakers

• Casper Wyo., population 18,000 when I was born, was large enough to hold the surprises of civilization, but small enough that the prairie was close by - for some in our town, right out the front door - stretching on forever, under the great curving sky.

  

  Lynne Cheney
  • Great
  • Small
  • Forever

• Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but rather the fear of death?

  

  Epictetus
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Human Evils

• The minorities have been confined to the city by a moat of bigotry.

  

  Shirley Chisholm
  • Cities
  • Minorities
  • Confined