Chika (Jane Chika Oranika) Quotes
I’m a child of immigrants, I’m black and I’m a big woman and gay on top of that.
Chika
Quotes to Explore
-
I think the gay community, just like anybody, should be represented in all forms and all types.
Cameron Monaghan
-
Even during my youth, I can recall very few black people living on any kind of public assistance. People were working, doing some kind of job that was useful to the community.
Ed Smith
-
The black press, some liberal sportswriters, and even a few politicians were banging away at those Jim Crow barriers in baseball. I never expected the walls to come tumbling down in my lifetime.
Jackie Robinson
-
If a little black girl in Montgomery, Alabama, or some far-reaching region sees something that I do and aspires to do it one day with the knowledge that she can achieve it, then hey, my work is done.
Octavia Spencer
-
My dad had a Vincent Black Shadow, which was a quite particular thing: it was the fastest cycle of its era... It sparked a world for me; when I was old enough, I got a motorcycle.
Rachel Kushner
-
I never thought we'd ever have a black president. President Obama has done such a tremendous job... He just has been unable to get what he needs to be moved at the level it should be moved.
Hank Aaron
-
The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white.
William Blake
-
The history of using mice to stand in for humans in medical experiments is replete with failures.
Gary Wolf
-
My guitar is a mutation between a classic Fender Stratocaster guitar, which I played for years, and a Gibson solid-body like an SG or a Les Paul. It contains all sounds of the basic classic rock n' roll guitars. It does what I want it to do.
Jerry Garcia
Grateful Dead
-
I write in the studio.
Macy Gray
-
I remember my father had a sermon he used to preach when we were in Florida, in which he gave a reference to the Southern Cross-about the stars, the colors, in the Southern Cross, which thrilled me very much. I must have been around 5 years old. ... Now, it turns out that the Southern Cross itself does have one red star, together with three blue ones.
William Wilson Morgan
-
I’m a child of immigrants, I’m black and I’m a big woman and gay on top of that.
Chika