Eunice Kathleen Waymon (Nina Simone) Quotes
From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
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Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do.
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Well, logos is science or reason, something that helps us to function practically and effectively in the world, and it must therefore be closely in tune and reflect accurately the realities of the world around us.
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I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.
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If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.
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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
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The confidence and respect shown by my countrymen in calling me to be the Chief Magistrate of a Republic holding a high rank among the nations of the earth have inspired me with feelings of the most profound gratitude.
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I watched 'Rocky' and 'Raging Bull' and 'Taxi Driver' over and over again. They spoke to you, man.
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I was always a bit different. I had a very happy childhood, but I could never hang on to mates.
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The idea that everything is purposeful really changes the way you live. To think that everything that you do has a ripple effect, that every word that you speak, every action that you make affects other people and the planet.
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Football matters so much to people, and they get very defensive - or angry.
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We still need to be conscious of the fact that Russia has intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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Well, I'm a professional.
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When I left French 'Vogue,' New York welcomed me with a big, big hug.
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Here's the thing: 'The Hurt Locker' was an amazing, important film. But did I enjoy it? Of course not. It was very tough to watch and, while gripping, not exactly what you'd call a happy place.
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There was a time, actually, when I hadn't been singing, and I'd lost a lot of my ability. My range had shrunk.
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Capitalism attacks and destroys all the finer sentiments of the human heart; it ruthlessly sweeps away old traditions and ideas opposed to its progress, and it exploits and corrupts those things once held sacred.
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'Let us leave tomorrow’s trouble for the One who bore our troubles on the cross.'
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Let's go dance under the elms:Step lively, young lassies.Let's go dance under the elms:Gallants, take up your pipes.
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Any one detail, followed through to its source, will usually reveal the general state of readiness of the whole organization.
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I would say that I put down a lot of the white American culture, and ways, and beliefs.
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It was a great time to be born, because I got to have my own publishing company right from the beginning, so I made more money than somebody would have doing what I did ten or fifteen years before.
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Peace in the Middle East has been on the Obama administration's mind from the beginning. Two days after his inauguration, the president traveled to the State Department to announce the appointment of George Mitchell as his Middle East peace negotiator.
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Keep your hands open, and all the sands of the desert can pass through them. Close them, and all you can feel is a bit of grit.
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From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
