Asra Nomani Quotes
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When you celebrate, it's something that happens as a group. But when you mourn, sorrow is something that you handle as an individual.
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I think Delhiites know how to party, but Kolkata has people who know how to celebrate. I think that's the main difference.
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Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures.
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One of my favorite - well, my favorite, favorite, absolute favorite event to go to is Alfre Woodard has a party that I call the blacktress party. It's, like, black actresses that either have been nominated for an Oscar or should have been, and it sort of is just a night where we all get in a room and we get to celebrate each other.
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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.
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I'm happy; I'm a happy person.
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For some reason, my main movie, Lady Sings the Blues, to me really isn't me. I really can let go of Diana Ross when I see the movie. I'm really objective when I'm watching it. I liked that movie so much. That movie was like magic so that when I'm looking at it I'm really not seeing myself, I'm seeing the actress. I'm seeing another person, not the me of me.
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I believe each person is more creative than he or she has ever imagined.
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Act as if you were already the person you want most to be.
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Come celebrate with me that every day something has tried to kill me and has failed.
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People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.
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Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.
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Slavery is what slavery's always been: About one person controlling another person using violence and then exploiting them economically, paying them nothing. That's what slavery's about
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The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.
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The last person to be beatified by Pope John Paul II was Mother Teresa of Calcutta in 2003.
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I am a completely different person when I am working on different collections.
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All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.
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The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
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The most important phase of living with a person: the respect for that person as an individual.
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You cannot be responsible for Jim Crow. You can not be responsible for racism. This is much more a problem for the person exercising racism.You are confronted with the reality of racism when you go in the streets, when the eyes of others come upon you. [James] Baldwin goes back with you to all the experiences you went through and gives a name to them, and explains why it is like this.
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What one gets, I hope, is that all you can do is the best you can do.
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Unfortunately, I don't think I can call myself an activist because I don't really do enough of anything.
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If you ain't using all the talents God provided you with For the betterment of Man, understand, You ain't nothing but a waste.
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You celebrate a person's life by living your life fully.
