Achy Obejas Quotes

Both childbirth and abortion are medical procedures but neither is an illness, and sometimes they're both treated as such.

Achy Obejas

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• I can't see how I'd learn to be a better actor from reading reviews.

  

  Ebon Moss-Bachrach
  • Reading
  • Learn
  • Better

• The real Malala is gone somewhere, and I can't find her.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Real
  • Find
  • Gone

• I would like to do a period piece. I think that would be fun.

  

  Beau Mirchoff
  • Fun
  • Think
  • Like

• If Asian America exists, it is because of systemic racism.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • America
  • Racism
  • Asian

• I always seem to feel that everything is about to cave in on me. I think that maybe music is my protection from that and in some senses it's an outlet to turn it into something euphoric: embracing the eventual decline.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Music
  • Think
  • Me

• For six months I'd do movies and make it all about me. Then the other six months, it's not about me and it doesn't matter what my hair looks like or what anything looks like.

  

  Rachel True
  • Me
  • Hair
  • Movies

• If people love 'Gremlins' so much and 'Clueless,' 'Yoga Hosers' is not that weird. It is very weird, but compared to that stuff, it's not that different.

  

  Harley Quinn Smith
  • People
  • Different
  • Weird

• As grateful as we are for all the work the community health centers do, it is also important that we recognize that they cannot solve the health care crisis facing our Nation by themselves.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • Work
  • Important
  • Community

• I'm from the creative side of Hollywood. I'm up for anyone that wants to support my work. If you have eyeballs and give me a budget and are nice to me, I'm in.

  

  Jenji Kohan
  • Up
  • Work
  • Support

• It is interesting to note that life never leaves us stranded. If life hands us a problem, it hands us also the abilities with which to meet the problem.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Life
  • Interesting

• You're building a tool, not a piece of art. Don't be blinded by the vision.

  

  Andrew Mason
  • Art
  • Success
  • Vision

• We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable - but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Live
  • Art
  • Power

• There’s no doubt that there’s some folks who just really dislike me because they don’t like the idea of a black President.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Black
  • Doubt

• True love, to me, is when she's the first thought that goes through your head when you wake up and the last thought that goes through your head before you go to sleep.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • Up
  • She
  • True

• The Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Book
  • Mess
  • Editor

• Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Wish
  • Learn
  • Details

• Outsourcing was the bogeyman of the 90s. Protectionists portrayed it as an evil that would take American jobs away. Yes, some jobs did go offshore as people feared, but it made the global economic pie grow bigger.

  

  Vivek Wadhwa
  • People
  • Evil
  • Economic

• I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Black

• Through knowledge, you can develop the economy. Without knowledge, you cannot improve a society.

  

  Newton Lee
  • Society
  • Knowledge
  • Economy

• Teachers spend most of their daytime hours with children. Teachers at every level, coaches, counselors, cafeteria workers and yes, custodians, spend their hours trying to make children's lives different, if not always better.

  

  Susan Straight
  • Children
  • Better
  • Lives

• Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Control
  • King
  • Ignore

• Both childbirth and abortion are medical procedures but neither is an illness, and sometimes they're both treated as such.

  

  Achy Obejas
  • Abortion
  • Illness
  • Childbirth