Suheir Hammad Quotes

I cried when i saw those buildings collapse on themselves like a broken heart.

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• I see Americans of every party, every background, every faith who believe that we are stronger together: black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American; young, old; gay, straight; men, women, folks with disabilities, all pledging allegiance under the same proud flag to this big, bold country that we love. That's what I see. That's the America I know!

  

  Barack Obama
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Women

• I have always tried to make profitable films because people's offices shut down if films fail, and I will do everything to avoid that.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • People
  • Always
  • Down

• I did not break up the Beatles. You can't have it both ways. If you're going to blame me for breaking the Beatles up, you should be thankful that I made them into myth rather than a crumbling group.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Me
  • Thankful
  • Blame

• MMI brothers were very resistant to women such as Lynn Shiflet and others who emerged as leaders within the OAAU, so one of the tensions that occurred was around gender equality and gender leadership inside of Malcolm's X entourage.

  

  Manning Marable
  • Women
  • Brother
  • Leadership

• Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Literature
  • Hands
  • Doe

• I didn't realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

• Rumors about me? Calista Flockhart, Pam Anderson, and Matt Damon. That's who I'm dating.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Dating
  • Rumors
  • Matt Damon

• Nancy Reagan would just run up to these kids [with really painful disabilities and deformities] and hold them and pick them up... because I think she felt so judged all the time and she felt so unlovable.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • Up
  • Time
  • Thinking

• Satan can imitate God, but he cannot duplicate Him - God is the only One who can deliver us from our pain and suffering.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • God
  • Pain
  • Christian

• Many of them have started selling their cattle crop to buy hay. If they're selling them to buy hay, they're not able to pay their other expenses.

  

  Brian Jones The Rolling Stones
  • Selling
  • Cattle
  • Crop

• Journalism, as concerns collecting information, differs little if at all from intelligence work. In my judgment, a journalist's job is very interesting.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Interesting
  • Judgment
  • Journalism

• When you paint, try to put down exactly what you see. Whatever else you have to offer will come out anyway.

  

  Winslow Homer
  • Trying
  • Paint

• You cannot go out and say, oh, I am going to raise all this spending, but it's not going to cost anybody any money.

  

  Rick Scott
  • Anybody
  • Spending
  • Raise

• We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings.

  

  Alfred Jarry
  • Up
  • Ruins
  • Buildings

• I was reminded of the Winchester Mystery House, which I’d seen as a child on a trip with my parents. From above, there was the same sort of random conglomeration—peaked roofs connected to flat roofs, shakes and shingles, tarpaper and skylights—and I realized that Frank had constructed his house from the town, connecting the buildings until they made one enormous edifice. “Jesus,” I breathed.

  

  Bentley Little
  • Child
  • Buildings
  • My Parents

• I cried when i saw those buildings collapse on themselves like a broken heart.

  

  Suheir Hammad
  • Collapse
  • Buildings
  • Cried