Ayana Mathis Quotes
My book has a pre - civil rights setting with a post - civil rights sensibility. I believe less and less that there is something called "The Black Experience," though undoubtedly there was one once.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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I feel like we all have our skeletons.
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We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one is entitled to a free pass to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.
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So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.
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Boxing, in the most general terms, is a poor man's sport. All you have is your hands to make a living.
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I have always found photography magical, and became more taken with it whilst modeling.
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Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
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I was your C student. I paid attention in the classes that were about how to get elected.
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Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
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I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.
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I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
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If members of the security apparatus could, with impunity, keep from those elected by the people that which they're entitled to know - or worse, feed false information - those who could control the classified data could be the real decision makers.
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New York City has an integration problem.
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When you have endless time, you take all day to go to the grocery store. But, if you have to be at work for 14 hours a day, you manage your time better. I know I do.
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I don't think you can climb Mount Everest with a broken leg, but I did break my leg prior to going to Mount Everest, so I was really climbing with a healing broken leg. I had the good fortune of climbing the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. That was a goal that I had.
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I came face-to-face with a gorilla which was quite good, but it was a 10-hour trek in bad weather, up hills, covered in mud, with mosquitoes everywhere and when we got there the gorilla's just sat there doing nowt.
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For the better part of two centuries, outsiders have been offering explanations that range from racist to learned-sounding - the supposed inferiority of blacks, the heritage of slavery, overpopulation - for why Haiti remains the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.
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Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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Education and the workforce: I think these two things go together in terms of human potential.
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To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
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My mom was dying for me to write a book, she was my biggest advocate.
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When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.
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It's funny: when I go to a school and speak, and when they hear the back story about me, they want to go read the book.
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My book has a pre - civil rights setting with a post - civil rights sensibility. I believe less and less that there is something called "The Black Experience," though undoubtedly there was one once.
