Normani Kordei Hamilton (Normani) Quotes
For me it's hard, especially being a young African-American woman. My dad doesn't look like what you might call the 'safe' African-American male that America would accept, if you know what I mean.
Quotes to Explore
-
With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I'm going to press on for equality. I'm going to press on for the sake of our children. I'm going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I am going to press on.
-
Every year is pressure. You need to put in on yourself to go out and perform.
-
It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
-
I love my headscarf. I wear my head wrap every day with my hoop earrings.
-
If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.
-
I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture.
-
After spending 22 years in Ohio, I love everything about New York.
-
Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
-
A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.
-
I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.
-
They thought that athletes that worked out with my system wouldn't be able to throw a ball because they'd be too muscle bound. Those are the misconceptions I had to go through for about 40 years.
-
I don't think that when I'm acting I feel like I lose myself to it, but that sense of losing, that sense of discomfort, well, I guess maybe that comes a bit! It's about redefining what 'uncomfortable' means for you.
-
Gratefulness is a double-edged sword. Because I think we've poured it into a feeling. And the batter of gratitude gets kind of stuck to the edges of the Williams Sonoma melamine mixing bowl. But gratefulness, the act of being grateful is actually... a verb. It's an activity.
-
It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared beyond your actual resources.
-
I'm sure that I don't know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.
-
I had a sense when I took the job that the 1976-77 Trail Blazers could be very good. We had made a lot of positive roster changes, but it wasn't until I had the team in training camp that I realized that this team could be special. Midway through that season, I felt we had a chance to win it all.
-
I grew up doing gymnastics. It requires discipline, eating right, getting sleep, lots of sacrifice. But the pros outweigh the sacrifice.
-
We always hear from newspapers that while people understand the environmental challenge, they are unwilling to stomach the solutions. The trouble is, we only ever hear about the solutions from the media, and for whatever reason, they are almost always caricatured beyond recognition. If there's no appetite for green, it's not surprising.
-
If the Olympics come around, and I'm in shape, then I'll compete. But I won't be representing the United States; I'll be representing myself.
-
Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.
-
I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him. It was his face. It was whether or not he'd approve of my playing.
-
He who kisses girl on hillside is not level.
-
There is no jewel in the world so valuable as a chaste and virtuous woman.
-
For me it's hard, especially being a young African-American woman. My dad doesn't look like what you might call the 'safe' African-American male that America would accept, if you know what I mean.
