Shirley Chisholm (Shirley Anita Chisholm) Quotes

I've always met more discrimination being a woman than being Black...men are men.

Shirley Chisholm

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• I've been to parties in L.A. that are mind-blowing. I mean, quite literally mind-blowing. People get cellphones in the party bag, that sort of thing. Fabulous, fabulous parties.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Mind
  • Party

• If you take one rivet out of an airplane, it will be all right, it'll keep flying. You take another rivet out of the airplane and it still flies. So what the heck, let's take more rivets out of the airplane, and sooner or later, the airplane drops from the sky.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Sky
  • Flying
  • Airplane

• I received so many hate letters when I breast-fed a starving baby in Africa. I was in Sierra Leone in 2009 and I was weaning my child at that time - she was not there with me. There was a hungry baby who was crying because his mother had no milk, and I thought, 'Why throw away my milk if I can give it to a baby who needs it?'

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Time
  • Why
  • She

• Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Done
  • Art
  • Doing

• Hopefully, ... as we go here in preseason, we'll get in groove with our whole offense.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Team
  • Training
  • Offense

• We are awaiting the police assessment of the video.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Police
  • Video
  • Assessment

• All criticism is a form of autobiography.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Criticism
  • Form
  • Autobiography

• I've told the kids in the ghettos that violence won't solve their problems, but then they ask me, and rightly so; "Why does the government use massive doses of violence to bring about the change it wants in the world?" After this I knew that I could no longer speak against the violence in the ghettos without also speaking against the violence of my government.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Government
  • Violence
  • Problems

• If you have not discovered something you are willing to die for, then you are not fit to live.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Live
  • Discovered
  • Willing

• Richard Pryor is my favorite stand-up ever.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Standup

• The dying process begins the minute we are born, but it accelerates during dinner parties.

  

  Carol Grace
  • Dying
  • Process
  • Born

• If we tried to rely entirely on reason, and pressed it hard, our lives and beliefs would collapse - a form of madness that may actually occur if the inertial force of taking the world and life for granted is somehow lost. If we lose our grip on that, reason will not give it back to us.

  

  Thomas Nagel
  • World
  • Reason
  • Belief

• It's more important to fly midpoint in deals and work together than to try to haggle for the last dollar.

  

  N. Murray Edwards
  • Work
  • Important
  • Together

• When it comes to landing a good job, many people focus on the role. Although finding the right title, position, and salary is important, there's another consideration that matters just as much: culture.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• A thriller needs to hold the interest of the reader from the very beginning. It needs to engage with them, hold them in rapt attention, and prevent them from putting down the book.

  

  Ravi Subramanian
  • Attention
  • Interest
  • Prevent

• I ran away from home. I ran away from St. Louis, and then I ran away from the United States of America, because of that terror of discrimination, that horrible beast which paralyzes one's very soul and body.

  

  Josephine Baker
  • America
  • Discrimination
  • Ran Away

• It's incredibly disturbing when a country, particularly your own country, uses discrimination as a basis for an investigation.

  

  Hasan M. Elahi
  • Country
  • Discrimination
  • Investigation

• I've always met more discrimination being a woman than being Black...men are men.

  

  Shirley Chisholm
  • Discrimination