Eunice Kathleen Waymon (Nina Simone) Quotes

Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking.

Eunice Kathleen Waymon

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• America's
• Way Of Thinking

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• As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.

  

  Iain Banks
  • People
  • Long
  • Book

• I'm trying to sell every audience something; that something is me.

  

  Eddy Arnold
  • Trying
  • Me
  • Audience

• Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Always
  • Religious
  • Books

• Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.

  

  Rachel Corrie
  • People
  • Trying
  • Military

• No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.

  

  Sallust
  • Man
  • Take
  • Seriously

• Congress needs to toughen the laws protecting elections and make clear that anyone interfering with democracy will pay a stiff price.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Democracy
  • Laws
  • Elections

• If you imagine your friend is recommending you content on a topic they're an expert on, they can do a really good job of that. They know what you're interested in, they know your personality, they know if you have a scientific type of mind-set or not.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Job

• I go to Japan every November on vacation, and the one thing I never return home without is yuba, which is the thin skin that forms atop boiling soy milk. You skim it off and either eat it fresh or dry it.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Home
  • Never
  • Vacation

• Society waits unformed and is between things ended and things begun.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Society

• He that always waits upon God is ready whenever He calls. Neglect not to set your accounts even; he is a happy man who to lives as that death at all times may find him at leisure to die.

  

  Owen Feltham
  • God
  • May
  • Happy

• Oh, Night will not see thirty again, Yet soft her wing, Miranda; Pick up your glass and tell me, then - How old is Spring, Miranda?

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Up
  • Night
  • Spring

• Mo: Thank you, Jillian, for that fascinating, uh, transsexual version of the Oedipus legend, 'Oedipal Complex.'

  

  Alison Bechdel
  • Legend

• If you could see my legs when I take my boots off, you'd form some idea of what unrequited affection is.

  

  Charles Dickens

• Getting a gun should be easy for good people and impossible for bad people. The only trick is telling the difference.

  

  Jeanne Marie Laskas
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• I'm not naturally an extrovert. I'm a writer - I sit in a room by myself making things up. That is where I'm happiest.

  

  Paula Hawkins
  • Up

• The good Lord was the one who provided everything for me.

  

  Carlos Ruiz
  • Good

• God doesn't make mistakes and has made each of us in his own image. God is simply love. There should be no fear in love.

  

  Martin O'Malley
  • God
  • Fear

• I think we've moved to thinking of parenting and pregnancy as something in which you should lose yourself.

  

  Emily Oster
  • Thinking
  • Pregnancy

• I was part of a group called Casanova Fly, doing bouncer work, attending college and working in a pizza shop when I first met producer Sylvia Robinson who came into the pizza shop where I was flipping the dough. I was rapping in the park in Englewood, and she heard about what I was doing.

  

  Big Bank Hank
  • Work
  • College
  • Fly

• Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Give a man a poisoned fish, you feed him for the rest of his life.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Life
  • Men
  • Giving

• I think slavery is the next thing to hell. If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it appears to me, be bad enough to send him into hell if he could.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Me

• That men should pray and fight for their own freedom, and yet keep others in slavery, is certainly acting a very inconsistent, as well as unjust and, perhaps, impious part, but the history of mankind is filled with instances of human improprieties.

  

  John Jay
  • Men
  • History
  • Freedom

• No individual, regardless of where they live or whom they love, should suffer discrimination.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Live
  • Love
  • Discrimination

• Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking.

  

  Eunice Kathleen Waymon
  • Slavery
  • America's
  • Way Of Thinking