Gerald Vizenor Quotes
Race is an invention, not a noticeable genetic presence, and cultural traits are brute concoctions of the social sciences.
Gerald Vizenor
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Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.
Zac Posen
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
Ed Smith
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
Lance Henriksen
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
Aaron Stanford
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I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.
Oliver Cromwell
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If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison.
J. K. Simmons
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Losing their reproductive rights is the first step to how women live in Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan.
Patricia Richardson
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I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, generally, I would start playing gospel songs. People would come by on the street - you live in Time Square, you know how they do it - they would bunch up. And they would always compliment me on gospel tunes, but they would tip me when I played blues.
B. B. King
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I love home. I'll stay up there for days on end, I won't even go down the driveway to look for the mail.
Dan Fogelberg
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Making products that we sell around the world stamped with three proud words: Made in the USA.
Barack Obama
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When I do think, 'Man a fucking motel room with a couple of thousand dollars' worth of narcotics would do me right,' I just look over at my dog and remember that Buster's never seen me high. (Scar Tissue, 2004).
Anthony Kiedis
Red Hot Chili Peppers
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Even in this world more things exist without our knowledge than with it and the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way. For existence has its own order and that no man’s mind can compass, that mind itself being but a fact among others.
Cormac McCarthy
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Why don't we have enough teachers of math and science in the public schools? One answer is well, if they knew the subject well, they'd also know enough to work for Google or Goldman Sachs or God knows where.
James Harris Simons
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Reparative justice is not about black people standing on the street corners expecting charities from white folks. This is about building of bridges across lines of moral justice.
Hilary Beckles
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Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying.
Polly Toynbee
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In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels.
Georges Danton
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But when I say it isn't meant for anyone's eyes, I don't mean it in the sense of one of those novel manuscripts people keep in a drawer, insisting they don't care if anyone else ever reads it or not.The people I have known who do that, I am convinced, have no faith in themselves as writers and know, deep down, that the novel is flawed, that they don't know how to tell the story, or they don't understand what the story is, or they haven't really got a story to tell. The manuscript in the drawer is the story.
Katharine Weber
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Race is an invention, not a noticeable genetic presence, and cultural traits are brute concoctions of the social sciences.
Gerald Vizenor
