Valerie Wilson Wesley Quotes
Black children need to see their lives reflected in the books they read. If they don't, they won't feel welcome in the world of literature. The lives of African-Americans are rich and diverse, and the books our children read should reflect that.
Valerie Wilson Wesley
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I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.
Quentin Tarantino
I knew what kind of actor I was going to be, and I looked for inspiration to people like Alec Guinness, Cyril Cusack, Timothy Spall and Jim Broadbent. I looked at them and thought, 'They play human beings as they really are.'
Eddie Marsan
Wearing too much makeup definitely makes my skin worse.
Paloma Elsesser
I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
Ma Jian
People need to take as much interest in other sports as they take in cricket, and that's where we come across a vicious cycle of performance, sponsorship, recognition, jobs and TV visibility. It's a typical chicken-and-egg story; each one is directly related to the other without an answer for what comes first.
Gagan Narang
I felt like people only knew me as a singer who dated pretty girls.
Adam Levine
Maroon 5
The world admits bears in pits do it, Even Pekingeses at the Ritz do it, Let's do it, let's fall in love.
Cole Porter
Kids that I went to school with didn't know how to interact with black people like that. There were only, like, three or four black kids in the class.
Big Sean
Then, all censure of a man's self is oblique praise.
James Boswell
What is said of a man is nothing. The point is, who says it.
Oscar Wilde
Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.' In other words, love is a dominant strategy.
Avinash Dixit
Black children need to see their lives reflected in the books they read. If they don't, they won't feel welcome in the world of literature. The lives of African-Americans are rich and diverse, and the books our children read should reflect that.
Valerie Wilson Wesley
