Chika (Jane Chika Oranika) Quotes
It’s the South — the deep, deep South, at that, so, there’s a still a lot of like underlying discrimination there. Growing up in it — or being born into it — you don’t know it. But once you become educated on the history of where I’m from, you start to pick out certain things. Racism, in Alabama right now, is more nuanced than it was back then. It’s more covert and disguised very well.
Chika
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We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.'
Valentina Zelyaeva
Sometimes when I'm going to the supermarket to get the coffee and cat litter, I get freaked out and see all these people staring, and you turn around and there's, like, 40 people all looking at you... and when you go around the corner, they're all following you! You start freaking out like a trapped animal.
Kate Bush
A true champion is one who sweats from exhaustion when no one is watching.
Bas Rutten
I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
Hannah Gadsby
I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
Irina Shayk
Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
Umberto Eco
Growing up in Australia, space exploration wasn't something I was too aware of.
Yvonne Strahovski
I also know that I have represented for us a certain kind of journalist and for me over the years when an older Black person comes and tells me how proud they are of me and the way I represent us on television, or when a younger person says to me, 'Hey Mr. Gordon, I watched you growing up and my parents made me watch you,'.
Ed Gordon
Dead men tell no tales.
Haniel Long
I know a lot of celebrity types go for Kabbalah and Scientology. But why pay 10 per cent of your earnings to someone when it's all common sense: treat others as you'd like to be treated yourself.
Gail Porter
The Beatles did treat me as a member of the group. And that was a great honor, you know?
Billy Preston
It’s the South — the deep, deep South, at that, so, there’s a still a lot of like underlying discrimination there. Growing up in it — or being born into it — you don’t know it. But once you become educated on the history of where I’m from, you start to pick out certain things. Racism, in Alabama right now, is more nuanced than it was back then. It’s more covert and disguised very well.
Chika
