Edmonia Lewis Quotes
No, I have not a drop of what they call white blood in my veins. My father was a full blooded Negro, and my mother was a full blooded Chippewa.
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God bless nannies.
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I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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I think we have to pay attention to the Arab masses not just in the Gulf States, but also in the hinterlands.
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Matte digital prints are gorgeous, don't you agree? But the glossy digital prints, I just can't stand that paper.
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Whenever I have even a spare second, I'm in the kitchen whipping up a batch of cookies. I make a mean batch of chocolate chippers.
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Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.
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If ever there were a place where people not only tend not to face economic facts, but it's almost their purpose not to face economic facts, it's Washington.
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You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
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I still pray a lot. I still believe in God. I just don't believe in any set religion.
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I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.
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I have no doubt that Brian May would have had a brilliant career in science had he completed his Ph.D. in 1971.
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Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.
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My husband and I were married in May 2007 on a sprawling rent-a-ranch in the Texas Hill Country. On the drive from Houston, we'd stopped off for our marriage license in the former produce aisle of a Winn Dixie-turned-courthouse in San Marcos and from there drove off the grid.
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French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.
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I would love to go back and help rebuild that country and help - you know, kind of like what's going on with Iraq right now. You know, they've got a new government in place. They're trying to rebuild the country. I would love for that to happen in Cuba also.
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The definition of 'morbid' is an unhealthy preoccupation with death. Unfortunately, there's no word to mean the perfectly healthy preoccupation with death, which is what I have.
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As soon as you say that there is a community called, let's say, black Americans, you've immediately created a boundary line - who's in that group, who's outside that group.
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I tend not to write books that are really, really long, and I'm also a pretty fast writer.
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My upbringing was completely liberal from the start. In fact, I didn't even have a Muslim identity.
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Most people I know I think agree and even many theists agree with this. We don't want government involved. When atheists become the majority in this country, I don't think the theists are going to be glad to have "one nation under no God" inserted in the Pledge of Allegiance.
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Proving I'm a good mother is the one achievement I'm most proud of. It's brought out the best in me.
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I'm always around my mother and sisters. I always wanted to be a father, a husband.
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No, I have not a drop of what they call white blood in my veins. My father was a full blooded Negro, and my mother was a full blooded Chippewa.
