Miriam Makeba (Mama Africa) Quotes
Belafonte'd take me to perform for Martin Luther King's cause. But when they were marching I did not take part, because I was not a citizen
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I think I was given a gift to play golf and to be mentally strong.
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EO 11110 did not order the printing of Silver Certificates. It ordered the amendment of a previous executive order so that the United States Code would authorize or 'empower' the Secretary of the Treasury to issue Silver Certificates if the occasion should arise.
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Speaking as someone who didn't go through the U.K. school system, with all the culinary baggage that entails, I am inordinately fond of custard in any shape or form.
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As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.
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I'd rather go to a flea market than just about anything. It's the process I like - the same with getting dressed. If I've got someplace to be, I'll spend more time getting dressed than I spent at the actual event. Sometimes. Even in my own closet, I love to dig and search and find.
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It's very difficult, I think, especially on two cellphones, to have a romantic conversation.
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I've always just focused on the work, and I've just tried to be honest with the work. If the work speaks to people, fantastic.
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A creative writing workshop will contain students whose ambitions and abilities, whose conceptions of literature itself, are so diverse that what they have in common - the desire to write - could almost be considered meaningless.
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I loved 'Get Out.'
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You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody's friend.
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These were the days when I powerfully believed Breyers and Entenmann's to be pioneers in the field of antidepressants.
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Instincts under pressure crush the carbon of conformity and create diamonds. Each new season of life offers to train us for the next season if we pay attention and adapt.
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We've had fiction from the time of cave drawings. I think fiction, storytelling, and narrative in general will always exist in some form.
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Lord, my life is but a mist (James 4:14), yet through Your power, the things I give myself to can have an eternal impact. I am Your vessel
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The makers of entertainment must try, in our field, to be honest and grown-up.
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Are men truly such idiots that they cannot resist two orbs of flesh?
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I don't have to teach anymore, I don't have to work anymore, God has been really good to me.
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Along with planes, running water, electricity, and motorized transportation, the internet is now a fundamental fact of modern life.
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If there is one set of laws, one Constitution for every citizen, its protections hopefully applied equally to all, then why do the results seem to differ so radically? What do you call that? Look around - you're living in it.
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Faith is not the result of fuzy thinking. It is the cause of it.
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Belafonte'd take me to perform for Martin Luther King's cause. But when they were marching I did not take part, because I was not a citizen
