Cassandra Wilson Quotes
Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal.
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Good things happen when you meet strangers.
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I love doing what I do. I love asking questions. I love being in the mix.
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We need to protect the privacy rights of all Americans, and that means stopping the federal government from spying on the cellphones and emails of law-abiding citizens.
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Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
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I am just getting into Zora Neale Hurston, who is possibly a much better writer than the critics and rivals who tried to erase her from history, resulting in a life in which she worked as a maid and died in a welfare nursing home. She's clever. She does something modern to the sentence.
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When you get to 15 and most of your teachers are priests, there's bound to be a conflict.
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I have 10 children. I've got my eighth grandchild in the oven with Kimberly. I have all these wonderful kids.
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Most of the fans of John Lennon and maybe John and Yoko are younger than me.
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What made me move up to welterweight was all the effort I was doing, to look at my health and have a good life. I wanted to stop sacrificing so much.
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Sometimes you usually know the point where to keep your mouth shut.
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If you lined up 10 writers and asked them to write a movie about Steve Jobs, you'd get 10 very different movies.
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All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them.
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Even when I was rebelling against my father, the point was to follow my own intuition and instinct.
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I think it's critical in any character you play that it really is about reacting instead of acting. You can always tell when a person is acting.
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I don't like to be negative about math because it really teaches you a lot of great things. You kind of use math every day.
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When I was a kid, I used to try and hit every ball out of the ground. After playing one-day cricket and Test cricket, I never thought I'd get a chance to play like that again, ever. Twenty20 has given me the opportunity of playing like a kid again. I can just feel free and go out there and hit.
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Most days I struggle just to be accepted into the camp of plain old feminists. This is mainly because I am not by nature ideological and generally suspicious of people who are.
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A large nose is in fact the sign of an affable man, good, courteous, witty, liberal, courageous, such as I am.
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When dictators feel their support slipping among adults, it is not unusual for them to alter school textbooks in the hope of enlisting impressionable youths in their cause.
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There are a few people who genuinely see the best in everyone.
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I don't like inherited wealth.
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Our principal constraints are cultural. During the last two centuries we have known nothing but exponential growth and in parallel we have evolved what amounts to an exponential-growth culture, a culture so heavily dependent upon the continuance of exponential growth for its stability that it is incapable of reckoning with problems of non-growth.
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Rich kids work hard. Most black kids aren't working hard enough.
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Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal.
