Farrah Gray Quotes
It is not possible to erase racism just because African-Americans have reached a level of financial success and crossover appeal.
Quotes to Explore
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When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
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To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I've done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.
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I was an only child until I was 11 years old, which is when my sister was born. So for 11 years, it was just me.
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I love stories about two people who are doing illegal things, who we really enjoy watching despite the fact that we know they are doomed in some way.
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The gap in India has always been between the promise and the execution.
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But did I think it would last more than 13 episodes at the time? No, I didn't think that. I never know.
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Emily’s chestnut-colored hair was thick and shiny as silk floss-an extraordinary female endowment. But like most female endowments, it was generally more trouble than it was worth.
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I find the experience of keeping a journal much more creative on paper than on a computer. When I write, I'm physically immersed in the world and slow down, whereas on screen, I use my senses in a less engaged way - and I skim more.
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In baseball, I was a pitcher, which I hated because there was no action there.
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Good news doesn't necessarily have to be a positive thing. Bringing good news is imparting hope to one's fellow man.
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In Hollywood, if you have any success, you have this fear: What do you have to do to hang onto it?
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My dad was a singer in a band and neither of my parents went to college, and I ended up getting into Harvard and was the first person in my family that went to college and it happened to be Harvard.
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A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?
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Women aren't supposed to want stuff. They're not supposed to have high emotions.
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Most women are not programmed to prefer a great career to a great man and a family. They feel they were sold a bill of goods at college and by the media.
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So many times in my life, people have tried to make me a failure.
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I didn't believe in a guardian angel when I was young. I was brought up in the Protestant faith, and the one thing you had over your Catholic friends was that you didn't have those awful saints chivvying you around.
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I grew up here in New York City and New Jersey, performing on Broadway shows, surrounded by some of my closest friends from the LGBT community. My father, a minister from New Jersey, shaped my view that love is love, that we are all equal.
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I don't understand leggings. They were the worst trend of the '80s.
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I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own - a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.
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Who cares who gets the last shot or scores the most points? Who cares who gets the credit? If we win, we're all winners.
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It is not possible to erase racism just because African-Americans have reached a level of financial success and crossover appeal.
