Suheir Hammad Quotes
I will dance and resist and dance and persist and dance. This heartbeat is louder than death.
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Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they've had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.
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Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world.
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Computer animation is one way to liberate people from their circumstantial gravity, and it is one way to give them mental freedom.
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Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.
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There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place.
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Conceptual art, I don't even know what that is.
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Twitter is a place where you share your thoughts, yourself... you don't want a plain white backdrop for that. You want the entire page to say something about who you are. Designer or not, if the urge strikes you, go for it. Put up that watercolor you've never shown anyone. Take a photo of that hat you just knitted... whatever it is, share it.
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If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.
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I used to love going and playing jam sessions, doing things spontaneously. I can't do that anymore. Everything you do is documented, nothing is casual anymore.
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I'm not a feminist that hates men by any means.
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Mr. Speaker, for the last 5 years I have been working with a bipartisan group of my colleagues to make it illegal to continue the barbaric practice of game bird and illegal dog fighting.
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It would be a narrow conception of jurisprudence to confine the notion of 'laws' to what is found written on the statute books, and to disregard the gloss which life has written upon it.
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The last thing you want is to not be recognized for all of the hard work you put in.
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It is never too late to regain our credibility around the world.
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Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.
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Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
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Everybody thought I was crazy. They thought I should take the money and run. But there was just something special about being a senior at Chapel Hill. I just couldn't leave.
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The diva tag just won't go away. I think that's because people want me to be like that. It makes it more interesting if I have thrown a phone at somebody or a water bottle. Sadly that's just not me.
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The rest of the world wants our cash; we like plastic.
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I got into comedy so I could stay out all night.
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The outsider may indeed wonder at this seeming much ado about nothing. What a tempest in a tea-cup! he will say. But when we consider how small after all the cup of human enjoyment is, how soon overflowed with tears, how easily drained to the dregs in our quenchless thirst for infinity, we shall not blame ourselves for making so much of the tea-cup.
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When a woman feels the first grip of her child's dependence upon her, she has forever lost her freedom. If the child dies, a grave shackles her soul through life. If the child lives, the welfare of that child keeps perpetually between her and the sun.
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I intend to do the Penn & Teller show until they pry my cheesy magic wand from my cold dead fingers.
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I will dance and resist and dance and persist and dance. This heartbeat is louder than death.
