Bebe Moore Campbell Quotes

African-Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem.

Bebe Moore Campbell

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• At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.

  

  Eddie Perez
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• It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Nature
  • Right
  • Been

• The clash of civilizations or the clash between Islam and the West may be cliches. But there is an even bigger cliche around: that this clash actually goes on within Islam, between reformists and fanatics.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • May
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• Acting is in your soul.

  

  LaTanya Richardson
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  • Acting
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• I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Devil
  • Afraid

• In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies.

  

  Jack Adams
  • Training
  • Japanese
  • Watch

• The first thing I look at is, 'Is the entrepreneur going after really big problems, to the extent that it feels scary when they talk about it?' You wonder if the idea is possible. I have seen that a lot of times, people go after small problems, and that's a sign that they are not confident.

  

  Sachin Bansal
  • People
  • Small
  • Wonder

• Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Nice
  • Strangers
  • Coming Up

• I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Working
  • New
  • January

• When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military engines from the hair of the women, they dedicated a temple to the Bald Venus.

  

  Lactantius
  • Women
  • City
  • Hair

• I don't aspire to have high approval ratings. I aspire, in light of my two predecessors, to be the most honest governor I can be. I'd rather focus on honesty than popularity.

  

  Pat Quinn
  • High
  • Light
  • Focus

• I have seen people climbing up and down the ladder of success, and I learnt a lot from them.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • People
  • Up
  • Success

• No secret that for some years - long before my time - Komen was dealing with a controversy regarding Planned Parenthood grants.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Time
  • Long
  • Planned

• At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.

  

  Dan Colen
  • Hope
  • Day
  • Vision

• I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Power
  • Easy
  • Impossible

• I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • Smart
  • Write
  • Own

• We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • God
  • Truth
  • True

• I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Experience
  • Food
  • Lost

• If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.

  

  Angela Thirkell
  • Truth
  • Lie
  • Stick

• I'm a very determined businesswoman... I've got lots of things to do, and I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time.

  

  Kim Basinger
  • Time

• Automatically everybody thinks of me as an actress who is trying to sing. And if I weren't me I'd probably think the same thing.

  

  Molly Ringwald
  • Trying
  • Actresses

• Even after we compensated for confounding factors like family history of depression, coffee drinking, or their year in medical school, we still came out with a very clear change in risk.

  

  Luke Ford
  • Family
  • School
  • History

• First, we must do our own personal work, then we tend the necessary work of our family, then our community, then the world.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Work
  • Family
  • Community

• African-Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem.

  

  Bebe Moore Campbell
  • Family
  • Problem
  • Racism