Shirley Chisholm (Shirley Anita Chisholm) Quotes
Racism is so universal in this country, so widespread and deepseated, that it is invisible because it is so normal.
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All I came to Los Angeles with was a dream. No one from my family ever left Ohio.
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I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.
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I have a pair of Rodarte leggings. They're crazy, but I wore them for one day, and then by the end of the day they weren't tearing, but they were getting a little loose.
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My schedule is so crazy.
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
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If it's really beautiful weather, sometimes I might take a helicopter out. I got my license in 1999.
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To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And on the other side, you need market opportunities, information, employment, and human rights.
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I don't accept any money, free products, or anything else of value from the companies whose products I cover or from their public relations or advertising agencies.
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The best part about the movie, and everybody seems to rave about it, is the boot camp part.
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The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.
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I'm a horrible golfer.
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My features are completely ethnic.
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The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.
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I came out even with all the struggles I endured on Rikers Island.
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I tremble when I am reminded of the fact that I have to be in charge of this country and Parliament, which had been led by no less a person than Jawaharlal Nehru.
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Coming from Australia and playing rugby, you just think that soccer is a bit soft, but I'll tell you what - it's not. It's rough as guts. It's great.
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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.
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I will be the last person to condemn ALF the Animal Liberation Front.
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The debut film came much easier to me than it would have if I was an outsider.
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I dress for a certain type of girl that I like. Women dress for us, they dress to attract us, so we should at least show that gratitude to them, you know what I'm saying?
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I started writing rhymes first and then put it to the music. I figured out I could lock it to the beat better if I heard the music first. I like to get a lot of tracks, put the track up and let the music talk to me about what it's about.
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I feel really good, I feel like a man now, and I'm really happy.
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To rule by knowledge ravages the country.
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Racism is so universal in this country, so widespread and deepseated, that it is invisible because it is so normal.
