Rashid Johnson Quotes
The thing that turned out to be interesting about CB radios was the ability to call out in the world with anonymity. You choose your handle. Race and class become non-signifiers.
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We as children went up the mountain to find feed for livestock, like goats, cows and horses, and because in the winter time we would light the fire in the house, we would climb the mountain to collect firewood as well. Because of that, I suppose I became used to climbing mountains.
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In a marathon, if you run too fast, you get exhausted. If you run too slow, you never make it.
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My wife Danielle and I love travelling, different cultures and good weather.
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The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
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People do not lack strength; they lack will.
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Years ago, I carved out an identity, and it has always been about having a voice to tell people about stuff I love.
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I founded Camellia Network with my dear friend Isis Dallis Keigwin. The mission of our organization is to create a national network that connects every youth aging out of foster care to the critical resources, opportunities, and support they need to thrive in adulthood.
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If I see a now-28-year-old woman coming up to me, she's probably thinking of 'Juno' because she watched it with her parents when she was 18 years old.
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In domestic life, the woman's value is inherent, unquantifiable; at home she exchanges proven values for mythological ones. She 'wants' to be at home, and because she is a woman, she's allowed to want it. This desire is her mystique, it is both what enables her to domesticate herself and what disempowers her.
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Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
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The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.
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I was able to participate in New York Fashion Week and walk down the runway. I participated in a pizza contest in Canada.
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I wanted passionately to be a priest.
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I've always had very catholic tastes.
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Nobody else knew what to do with me because big women are old.
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I loved Peg Bundy. I am so happy that I got to do that. It was really fun.
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It is painful beyond measure to lose a loving father and grandmother to violence.
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I'm just a ballplayer with one ambition, and that is to give all I've got to help my ball club win. I've never played any other way.
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Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.
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I've shaken hands with every radio station, from Honduras to Ryan Seacrest's.
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I find flawed characters much more interesting than perfect ones and enjoy the challenge of making readers root for them in spite of their unsympathetic path and destructive choices.
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My kids are so dramatically different, but it's not like I would trade one in or like there's one I would pick over the other ones. I know that sounds like I'm bullshitting. I also have five of them so I barely know them.
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The thing that turned out to be interesting about CB radios was the ability to call out in the world with anonymity. You choose your handle. Race and class become non-signifiers.
