Shirley Chisholm (Shirley Anita Chisholm) Quotes

When I die, I want to be remembered as a woman who lived in the twentieth century and who dared to be a catalyst of change. I don't want to be remembered as the first black woman who went to Congress. And I don't even want to be remembered as the first woman who happened to be black to make a bid for the Presidency I want to be remembered as a woman who fought for change in the twentieth century. That's what I want.

Shirley Chisholm

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• An artist is born like a priest is born. If they are born an artist, I would tell them art is not a game: it is something very serious which completely requires everything you have to give.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Art
  • Game
  • Artist

• Women should wear clothing. Clothing shouldn't wear them.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Women
  • Wear
  • Clothing

• By the age of 18, I was very fat. My dad would say there's a Spall fat gene. But I was fat because I ate loads. I used to go and buy six or seven chocolate bars and eat my way through them.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • Age
  • Dad
  • Chocolate

• Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Science
  • New
  • Year

• I did two movies that were arthouse movies; they were critically successful but made no money at all... but after making those movies, I thought, 'I wouldn't watch my own movies when I was 16, and my buddies where I came from wouldn't watch my movies, because they were boring.'

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Money
  • Thought
  • Successful

• I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books.

  

  Barbara Park
  • Up
  • Enough
  • Books

• Success is the best revenge. I always feel women should answer back either with their sarcasm or success.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Women
  • Success
  • Best

• On a given day, you can have market fluctuations where prices fluctuate far more than the underlying economic value of the unit.

  

  N. Murray Edwards
  • Day
  • Value
  • Economic

• Looking back, I got the bed I wanted and I lay in it. I didn't want to go to America. If you want to join that world, you have to go and live there, and that was something I could not have done. I am very much about family. It doesn't matter where I live, but I feel very needful of my people around me. Besides, theatre is my first love.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• That part, that internal dialogue that has a lot of ups and downs and darks and lights and stuff - that, I think, is where music comes from. I think the face that you put on when you're talking to people and making small talk, I don't think that's where music comes from.

  

  Cam
  • People
  • Music
  • Small

• I'll put on a song that I really like and do bicep curls with two kilo weights the whole song.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Song
  • Two
  • Weight

• We may not be worthy to be forgiven, but He is worthy to forgive us.

  

  J. D. Greear
  • May

• I personally just want to do as many different things as I can do, whether it's comedy, drama, science fiction, horror, narrator... You've got a documentary, I've got a voice. Animated films. Big films, small films.

  

  Colin Farrell
  • Different
  • Science
  • Small

• Apparently it’s my fault that the Titanic sank.

  

  Ian Holloway
  • Titanic

• I want to love you without clutching, appreciate you without judging, join you without invading, invite you without demanding, leave you without guilt, criticize you without blaming, and help you without insulting. If I can have the same from you, then we can truly meet and enrich each other.

  

  Virginia Satir
  • Helping
  • Blame
  • Criticize

• A dangerous quality, if real; and a not less dangerous one, if feigned.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Real
  • Quality
  • Dangerous

• I think I'm a very versatile player, that's how I was at LSU.

  

  Eric Reid
  • Player
  • I Think
  • LSU

• It's more fun to write stuff when you know someone's going to nail it.

  

  Riki Lindhome
  • Know
  • Going
  • Someone

• When I die, I want to be remembered as a woman who lived in the twentieth century and who dared to be a catalyst of change. I don't want to be remembered as the first black woman who went to Congress. And I don't even want to be remembered as the first woman who happened to be black to make a bid for the Presidency I want to be remembered as a woman who fought for change in the twentieth century. That's what I want.

  

  Shirley Chisholm
  • Congress
  • Century
  • Remembered