Beverly Daniel Tatum Quotes
Sometimes the assumptions we make about others come not from what we have been told or what we have seen on television or in books, but rather rom what we have not been told. The distortion of historical information about people of color leads young people (and older people to) to make assumptions that may go unchallenged for a long time.
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Digital presentation is just television in public; we're all just getting together and watching TV without pointing the remote control at the screen.
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This is who I am: a flyspeck of human vanity in a trillion miles of stone-dead interstellar space; a graceless lump of flesh and fear in a remote desert where nearly everything that I can see or touch is designed to hurt me.
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For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.
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It's healthy to have interests besides books.
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
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And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
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When people who are not black are interested in what I do, frankly, I'm always surprised. I don't know if it's my low expectations for white people or what.
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Every generation has someone who steps outside the norm and offers a voice for the unspeakable attitudes of that time. I represent everything that's supposed to be wrong, everything that's forbidden.
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My first published work was when I was 19, in 'Playgirl.' It was an odd experience but exciting.
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I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!
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I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.
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The burden for achieving disarmament cannot be borne by peace groups alone. Everybody, regardless of age, income, profession, gender or nationality, has a stake in this quest.
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The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.
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All the best parts of art come from pain turned to celebration.
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It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
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Business today consists in persuading crowds.
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I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.
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If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.
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In a way, being an opera singer is like being a very romantic sixteen-year-old who falls in love with great passion and conviction every month.
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Sometimes the assumptions we make about others come not from what we have been told or what we have seen on television or in books, but rather rom what we have not been told. The distortion of historical information about people of color leads young people (and older people to) to make assumptions that may go unchallenged for a long time.
