Natasha Trethewey Quotes
My parents had to go to Ohio to get married in 1965 because it was still illegal in Mississippi. My white father and black mother.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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How do people move on after they've lost the love of their life? It's a really interesting thing to look at. It happens to people every day: you see people... even in the worst, most war-torn places, people get up and continue with their lives. And it's a fascinating thing about human nature. That ability to just continue on.
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Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
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Often I play, especially on television, a lot of smart lawyer people and cerebral types.
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I'm a Republican. I don't want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat.
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Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
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I wanted to be a Teacher with a big T: teach the whole planet. It led me into writing and speaking to large groups.
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I don't want to come off as one of those artists that's not down to earth and real.
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Try paying the bills with love. The idea I am trying to espouse is that you can have both love and money, and be rich and generous.
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If you are a great news organization, you can't have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your scale is reduced to a fraction of its former self.
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I always hope to be a better person tomorrow than today.
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I'm obsessed with radio. It's a good start to Sunday morning.
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The Republican promise is for policies that create economic growth. Republicans believe lower taxes, less regulation, balanced budgets, a solvent Social Security and Medicare will stimulate economic growth.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.
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I've always had rock star envy. Unfortunately, writing is a pedestrian, tame occupation done while sitting in coffee-stained pajamas in front of a computer rather than prowling around a huge stage in sweaty leather pants, so I have to get my kicks vicariously.
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Senator Wyden continues to be the Senate's truest champion of an open Internet.
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I met Ray Charles at 14, and he was 16. But he was like a hundred years older than me.
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Artists have long urged cultural introspection by creating work that forces awareness of our current political and economic landscape.
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All the news stories were telling me to be frightened. All the commercials were telling me to buy things I didn´t need. The message was that people could only be passive victims or consumers.
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A man who marries his mistress leaves a vacancy in that position.
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I understood that my family was rich in love but would probably never own the land my father, John, dreamed of owning. My mother, Willie Ella Mays Clarke, was a washerwoman for poor white folks in the area of Columbus, Georgia where the writer Carson McCullers once lived.
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My parents had to go to Ohio to get married in 1965 because it was still illegal in Mississippi. My white father and black mother.
