Tamron Hall Quotes
I take it seriously that it's a privilege and honor to be a role model to young girls, both black and white. It's not something I take lightly.
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I cannot turn down this incredible honor twice.
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Hard work is not why I have been successful as a model.
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I've never been a six-foot-tall, skinny model, so therefore, I want to create an illusion. People always think I'm taller than I am - not just because of the shoes I wear but because of the way I dress. It's all relatively streamlined.
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The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
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I don't have an objective overview of Black Sunday.
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Black Sabbath invented heavy metal, in my opinion.
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Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.
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Honor wears different coats to different eyes.
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I think that it's hard enough being an adolescent and wanting so much to fit in with your peers, your schoolmates, and to erase any sign of difference, to be part of the group. And being biracial but also being black in a predominately white school marked me as different.
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I love to drive in the Black Hills of Wyoming and South Dakota with Mount Rushmore as the central stop.
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When the women's movement began, it was a middle-class phenomenon. Certainly, black women had other stuff to think about in the '60s besides a women's movement. Working-class women were slow to get into it.
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No one teaches you how to be a famous person; no one teaches you how to be a role model. It's something you have to do on your own.
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I want to be an inspirational model. I want people to look at me and say, 'Wow, she looks healthy.'
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'Black Messiah' is a hell of a name for an album. It can easily be misunderstood. Many will think it's about religion. Some will jump to the conclusion that I'm calling myself a Black Messiah. For me, the title is about all of us. It's about the world. It's about an idea we can all aspire to. We should all aspire to be a Black Messiah.
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There was a time I was no longer going to be black. I was going to be an 'intellectual.' When I was first looking around for colleges, thinking of colleges I couldn't afford to go to, I was thinking of being a philosopher. I began to understand then that much of my feelings about race were negative.
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Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
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I think everyone needs to be a role model, period.
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It takes ground activity to stimulate that Black vote.
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The war for the Internet has begun. Hollywood is in control of politics. The government is killing innovation.
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All the music I listened to in high school that I loved and that moved me wasn't the same music other kids were listening to in school. I got into punk rock and new wave, then dub and hip-hop.
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At the age of eight I became, in my own eyes at least, a writer.
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Better, the perfect, easy discipline of the swallows dip and swoop, without east or west.
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I've served on five different juries, and many of them were bonkers in their own way.
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I take it seriously that it's a privilege and honor to be a role model to young girls, both black and white. It's not something I take lightly.
