Adele Logan Alexander Quotes

I have to throw in on a personal note that I didn't like history when I was in high school. I didn't study history when I was in college, none at all, and only started to do graduate study when my children were going to graduate school. What first intrigued me was this desire to understand my family and put it in the context of American history. That makes history so appealing and so central to what I am trying to do.

Adele Logan Alexander

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• I think Don Cheadle has always done great work.

  

  Mahershala Ali
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• Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Always
  • Being
  • Apollo

• Tick is a cartoon character, I don't know if you're familiar with him. This is the third step in his evolution. Comic book to cartoon to, now, live-action.

  

  Patrick Warburton
  • Live
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• I know girlfriends of mine who, when they were approaching pregnancy and starting a family, consistently went through a period right beforehand that was a last gasp kind of thing where they just wreak havoc. They fall apart, in a profound way, because there's some awareness that that's the last time they can do that for awhile.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Time
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• I think we should all call ourselves feminists.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Think
  • Call
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• The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • People
  • Children
  • Society

• My younger brother's death in Vietnam was both sobering and cause for reflection. In 'Fallen Angels' I wanted to dispel the notion of war as either romantic or simplistically heroic.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • War
  • Death
  • Brother

• I have an insatiable palate. I'll try anything once, with an open mind. However, there is a special place in my heart for Kraft Macaroni & Cheese. Don't get me wrong, I've sampled specialty Mac & Cheese all over the world, but nothing competes with the stuff I grew up on.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Up
  • World
  • Mind

• I meet everybody. If somebody invites me to their house and they got a drum set close, I'm going to play, man. Let's jam. I don't care. Get in where you fit in and enjoy the experience.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Experience
  • House
  • Man

• Soccer matches should be something special, something people eagerly look forward to, something that brightens life.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Life
  • Soccer

• Authenticity is a virtue. But just as you can have too little authenticity, you can also have too much.

  

  Adam Grant
  • You
  • Too Much
  • Authenticity

• There are different types of talents and intelligences, and traditional schools sometimes ignore the creative ones. It is important for us to give kids every platform for them to find what they are good at and what they love. The arts also provide a space for newfound creativity.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Love
  • Kids
  • Creativity

• Sometimes when you make a record and it's not successful, you just don't want to go through that process for a while. You want to have your wounds heal.

  

  Gary Wright
  • Want
  • Successful
  • Process

• It's because Gandhi believed in villages and because the British ruled from the cities; therefore, Nehru thought of New Delhi as an un-Indian city.

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • City
  • Thought
  • British

• One man's trash is another man's treasure, and the by-product from one food can be perfect for making another.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Man
  • Food
  • Perfect

• The first place to start is on enforcement. We who got the ADA passed did the hard part, the heavy lifting.

  

  Major Owens
  • Place
  • Start
  • First

• I believe that whenever I want to learn something I can learn it much better and faster by myself if I'm motivated to learn it as opposed to kind of doing it in more a standard, institutionalized way.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Believe
  • Myself
  • Learn

• My friends are gone and My hair is grey. I ache in the places where I used to play. And I'm crazy for love but I'm not coming on. I'm just paying my rent everyday In the Tower Of Song.

  

  Leonard Cohen
  • Friends
  • Song
  • Crazy

• Constancy does not begin, but is that which perseveres.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci

• Oh, who would have dared believe that half-crazed I, I, sick with grief for the buried past, I, smoldering on a slow fire, having lost everything and forgotten all, would be fated to commemorate a man so full of strength and will and bright inventions, who only yesterday it seems, chatted with me, hiding the tremor of his mortal pain.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Believe
  • Past
  • Lost

• I must be the only person in 'Strictly' history who's actually put on weight during rehearsals.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • History
  • Person
  • Weight

• I had been terrified of Halloween my entire adult life. Loved it as a kid, but the minute I got out of college, there were little kids at my door demanding candy, which, No. 1, I couldn't afford, and, No. 2, if I had candy, it would be mine.

  

  Jen Lancaster
  • Life
  • Kids
  • College

• When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Thoughts
  • Meditation

• I have to throw in on a personal note that I didn't like history when I was in high school. I didn't study history when I was in college, none at all, and only started to do graduate study when my children were going to graduate school. What first intrigued me was this desire to understand my family and put it in the context of American history. That makes history so appealing and so central to what I am trying to do.

  

  Adele Logan Alexander
  • History
  • College
  • Desire