Odetta Holmes (Odetta) Quotes
If your neighbor looks at you like they don't enjoy the key you're singing in, look right back, bless them, and keep on singing.
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Isolationism is over.
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I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.
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True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale.
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It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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Some books I've kept because the binding is beautiful - I'm unlikely ever to read my grandmother's copy of 'The Life of Lord Nelson.' I'm addicted to secondhand bookshops.
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Making music is fantastic.
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One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.
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As the numbers of native-born Europeans begin to fall, with their anemic fertility rates, will the aging Europeans become more magnanimous toward destitute newcomers who do not speak the national language or assimilate into the national culture but consume its benefits?
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In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not.
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I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.
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As a writer and a mom, I wish I could split into two or three different people so I could be with my kids all day, write all day, and go out and do the interviews all day. Multiplicity woman!
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For me to have the opportunity to stay with one character for, God willing, a long period of time, is really exciting.
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Just because you make a good plan, doesn't mean that's what's gonna happen.
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I'm a big fan of Elvis, man. I got 'Heartbreak Hotel' tattooed on my chest.
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All my Dominican friends live in an area called Los Venaga. Their houses are shacks. They'd invite us over to dinner, and we'd sit in plastic chairs on the dirt inside a house.
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It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.
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I don't want to die until I see cancer cured.
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Even when I retired, there was part of me that didn't want to retire. But once you decide it's time to move on then you have to stick with it.
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I think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man.
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A human body is a conversation going on, both within the cells and between the cells, and they're telling each other to grow and to die; when you're sick, something's gone wrong with that conversation.
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Singing, for me, means singing as loud as I can.
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If your neighbor looks at you like they don't enjoy the key you're singing in, look right back, bless them, and keep on singing.
