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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What happened was I saw this ad for a yogurt plant for sale. It was in my junk mail pile, and I threw it into the garbage can. And then about half an hour later, with the dirt on it, I picked it up from the garbage can, and I called out of curiosity.
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I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.
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If you have more money than your lifestyle, then you can either do something stupid or smart. That's not much of a choice. That's like saying, 'You are on the roof. you can either take the elevator, or you can jump.' That's not a choice.
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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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These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.
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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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It doesn't bother me because I can tell everyone to kiss off.
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I came out even with all the struggles I endured on Rikers Island.
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Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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When the economy is still struggling, putting people back to work, finding ways to spur economic activity, ultimately can help to reduce the structural deficits and debts that countries experience.
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Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of its physical and intangible cultural heritage.
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Americans are fascinated by their own love of shopping. This does not make them unique. It's just that they have more to buy than most other people on the planet. And it's also an affirmation of faith in their 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.
