Uzodinma Iweala Quotes

I think, all too often, this society has too monolithic a definition of what a black American is.

Uzodinma Iweala

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• Devotion complete culminates in knowledge supreme.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
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• I used to be so self-conscious about my braces that people thought I was shy - I just never talked. It took me a long time to realize, whatever, it's not like I'll have them forever, so I might as well enjoy it while I do!

  

  Halima Aden
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• I don't campaign for the end of the aristocracy or the upper classes; I don't really want to destroy anything at all. I just want more plurality.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Want
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• My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Family
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• Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.

  

  A. Lawrence Lowell
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• The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • People
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• What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Think
  • Use
  • Box

• The word 'tolerance' once meant we all have the right to argue rationally for our deepest convictions in the public arena. Now it means those convictions are not even subject to rational debate.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • Now
  • Tolerance
  • Debate

• Hope! of all ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • Men
  • Hope
  • Endure

• I put out one album one week, and I'm already worried about the next one. I feel a lot of emotion throughout the course of a day. But not to the point where you need to be worried about me.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Day
  • Feel
  • Emotion

• I was really shy growing up. I had braces, headgear, and no boobs - still don't. So, the boys weren't interested in me. The only way I could get attention was by being a goof and a dork, which meant a lot of physical comedy.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Way
  • Growing
  • Attention

• Since September 11, security has been increased everywhere, and we have new IDs to get on to the Fox lot. I drove to the security gate, but realized I'd left my ID in my other car. I just broke into that voice - 'Hey, man, I'm Bart Simpson. Who else sounds like this?' The guard waved me through.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • Man
  • Car
  • Voice

• Sure-hoofed is my steed impelled by the spur;The high sprigs of alder are on thy shield;Bran art thou called, of the glittering branches.

  

  Taliesin
  • Art
  • High

• The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Women
  • History
  • Affirmation

• It is in the province of home and society that woman has fashioned the customs. Here, women's approval and disapproval, wishes and wants, have been quite as formative and reformative as the action of the sea on the mainland.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Women
  • Home
  • Society

• I called it 'Historian' because I feel like most of my creative efforts are efforts to capture something or to document it.

  

  Lucy Dacus

• Goals do not get stored in your voice message or email bin. They are not going to reach out from the world wide web and remind you they exist. As a result, our goals do not get the respect they deserve.

  

  Darren L Johnson
  • World
  • Respect
  • Goals

• Australians aren't really that crazy; in L.A. you get a little crazier. From my experience at least, Aussies don't really care that much about celebrities or things like that.

  

  Brody Jenner
  • Experience
  • Crazy

• We all have jobs in our lives that we must get done. We reach out and bring products into our lives to get these jobs done. Marketing is all about asking, 'What job is the customer trying to accomplish?'

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Trying
  • Done
  • Job

• I love books; my suitcases are always full of them. Books and shoes. I read when I am sad, when I am happy, when I am nervous. My favourite British author is Jane Austen, and my favourite American one is John O'Hara.

  

  Carolina Herrera
  • American
  • Happy
  • Sad

• What makes 'Pootie Tang' the motion picture enjoyable is its no-brow ambitions; it's a joke action film. It slides through enough African-American pop culture signifiers to raise laughs out of those who will appreciate the references; it revels in more cheese per square inch than a soul food diner.

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • American
  • Soul
  • Culture

• From the day of the Declaration, the people of the North American union, and of its constituent states, were associated bodies of civilized men and Christians, in a state of nature, but not of anarchy.

  

  John Quincy Adams
  • People
  • Men
  • American

• 'Well, that glove's fulla vaseline.''Vaseline? What the hell for?'Well, I tell ya what - Curley says he's keepin' that hand soft for his wife.'

  

  John Steinbeck
  • Hand
  • Wife

• I think, all too often, this society has too monolithic a definition of what a black American is.

  

  Uzodinma Iweala
  • American
  • Society
  • Monolithic