Eunice Kathleen Waymon (Nina Simone) Quotes

I believe in racial memory too. I'm sure I've got ancient African blood in me that has something to do with what I am.

Eunice Kathleen Waymon

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• Only people have been through that miserable time will recall the pass from their deep memory.

  

  Zhang Yimou
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• I have blood from Dutch and Norwegian.

  

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• I love England. I don't really like places when they're too hot. It's my Celtic blood.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
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• Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

  

  Wendell Berry
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• My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
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• I don't need power at the cost of spilled blood.

  

  Viktor Yanukovych
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• On 'Oz' one day, I got a chunk of a camera embedded in my head, and I was passed out on the floor geysering blood while the set medic stood over me, freaking out. No help whatsoever. I ended up going to the ER and getting nine stitches in my head – real Frankenstein stitches.

  

  J. K. Simmons
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• I might have created the phrase 'memory tools', but people have always found talismans to help them meditate into a state of hypnosis where they can access their past lives.

  

  M. J. Rose
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• I'm a born athlete. Weight-lifting is in my blood. I used to do the powerlifting thing. I gained a little weight, but I still got it; I'm mad built.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Mad
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• To be a liar, you've got to have a great memory, and I don't have a memory.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Great
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• I have a very high tolerance for gore and blood. I am, like, the perfect horror movie viewer because I do not get scared very easily. I can really stomach anything so, as a result, I have watched a lot of really disgusting stuff that I should probably never have seen.

  

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• I think that we are already making steps toward mapping out the brain so we can identify the chemical patterns that create and store memory.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Think
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• People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • Mind
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• Then I heard another shot which hit him right in the head, over here, and his head practically opened up and a lot of blood and many more things came out.

  

  Abraham Zapruder
  • Up
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• With Pakistan being in my blood, I would certainly look at opportunities to travel there.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Travel
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• I came to dedicate my life to opening space to the average person and crafting designs for new spaceships that could take us far from home. But since Apollo ended, such travels were only in our collective memory.

  

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  • Life
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  • Space

• Duration is the transformation of a succession into a reversion. In other words: THE BECOMING OF A MEMORY.

  

  Alfred Jarry
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• By their very nature bureaucracies have no conscience, no memory, and no mind.

  

  Edward T. Hall
  • Mind
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• I come from a place where breath, eyes, and memory are one, a place from which you carry your past like a hair on your head. Where women return to their children as butterflies or as tears in the eyes of the statues that their daughters pray to

  

  Edwidge Danticat
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• I said last week, we've gotta take care of the ball, especially in the first game. Once we lost the lead, we were chasing after that. When something bad happened, we dwelled on that. Not everybody. When that happens, we have to have a short memory and move on.

  

  Chris Wallace
  • Bad
  • Game
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• The society, is, a dishwasher, where all the water, is, dead chipmunk blood. God I'm brilliant.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Water
  • Blood
  • Brilliant

• The more Chaotic I am, the more complete I am.

  

  Austin Osman Spare
  • Complete
  • Chaotic

• I believe in racial memory too. I'm sure I've got ancient African blood in me that has something to do with what I am.

  

  Eunice Kathleen Waymon
  • Blood
  • Memory
  • I Believe In