Terry Ellis Quotes
Performing at the CIAA tournament was absolutely so cool because I am proud to say that I am an Alumni of an HBC.
Quotes to Explore
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By the time I was 29 I'd spent eight years with someone else's group of friends. I had no idea what it was like to be a woman with mates of her own to socialize with.
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There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
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Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place?
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What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it - would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.
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Every fight is a different experience.
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Parents who wonder where the younger generation is going should remember where it came from.
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The only kind of love worth having is the kind that goes on living and laughing and fighting and loving.
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I've been able to do things that allow me to hold my head up and still be popular.
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At the end of the day, I want the music industry to be larger than what it is today.
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I feel like LeBron James is an amazing basketball player, but he's also a community person.
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When you educate a woman, you set her free. Had I not had books and education in Mississippi, I would have believed that's all there was.
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My friend is not allowed to go out today. I sit by his side and read him passages from his own life. They fill him with surprise. Everyone should keep someone else's diary; I sometimes suspect you of keeping mine.
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The story ends up being a journey of self-discovery.
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Most individuals work much harder to hang on to what they have than to take the necessary risk to shoot for their dreams.
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Management that is destructively critical when mistakes are made kills initiative. And it's essential that we have many people with initiative if we are to continue to grow.
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Don't be afraid to step out and trust God. He is more faithful than the rising of the sun.
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I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short stories or essays. And I've always thought the best place for my photographs was inside books of my own creation.
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Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
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When you start performing, you realize that you have to separate yourself from the pack. So I would never wear bell-bottoms, which everybody else was wearing. I had short hair - and to see a 21-year-old guy walk onstage without longish hair was, in itself, weird. Every entertainer needs a shtick.
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I would have been a visual artist. When I was in high school, that was one of the things... I had to make a decision what I was going to go to college for, and at the time, I also painted and sculpted. I got more attention for my performing, so I thought that was a better idea.
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People are beginning to realize that it's important that we see animals in a natural state - but through film, through video, through documentaries, at wildlife preserves, and through other humanely protected ways, which don't involve... performing for us.
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Performing at the CIAA tournament was absolutely so cool because I am proud to say that I am an Alumni of an HBC.
