Shirley Chisholm (Shirley Anita Chisholm) Quotes

I am and always will be a catalyst for change.

Shirley Chisholm

Shirley Chisholm

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I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.

Sam Shepard
- Up
- Character
- Think
Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.

Rachel Zoe
- Life
- Long
- Hair
The thing about American writers is that, as a group, they get stuck in the same idea: that we're a continent and the world falls away after us. And it's just nonsense.

Sam Shepard
- World
- American
- Same
Incommensurables cannot be compared.

Garrett Hardin
- Cannot
- Compared
A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.

Jack Nicklaus
- Work
- Done
- Vision
Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.

Queen Rania of Jordan
- People
- Alone
- Learn