AJ Tracey (Ché Wolton Grant) Quotes

I feel like I was more accepted by the white community than the black [one]. A lot of the time, the black kids would be like, ‘Oh, ’cause you lighter, you’re not as “gang” as us. That’s really the attitude they have. It made me misbehave more because I felt like I had to prove a point.

AJ Tracey

• Community
• Attitude
• Point
• Accepted
• Misbehave

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• It would be wrong to assume that one must stay with a research programme until it has exhausted all its heuristic power, that one must not introduce a rival programme before everybody agrees that the point of degeneration has probably been reached.

  

  Imre Lakatos
  • Power
  • Research
  • Point

• The Florida Jewish community is incredibly important in the primary and will be that important in the general election as well.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Important
  • Community
  • Will

• Over and over I'm on the point of giving it up.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Point

• The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Power
  • Hurt
  • Lies

• African-Americans are not a monolithic group. So, we tend to talk about the black community, the black culture, the African-American television viewing audience, but there are just as many facets of us as there are other cultures.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • American
  • Black
  • Culture

• I'm not expecting the American literary community to welcome me with open arms. To them I'm just some schmuck kid who wrote some book.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Book
  • American
  • Community

• I have to remind myself when I'm on a job and I'm feeling a lull in attitude or confidence or whatever, I'm there for a reason. I have to constantly remind myself of these almost corny Pinterest mantras, like 'You are worthy.'

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Job
  • Feeling
  • Myself

• I was raised by a family that there was no, 'You're a girl so you have a limited number of options.' In my community, that was never anything that happened.

  

  Cam
  • Family
  • Girl
  • Community

• When I did 'Grease,' I took good care of myself. I treated it like a job. I approached it very professionally because I wanted to make a good reputation and hopefully continue on in the Broadway community and continue to do shows.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Good
  • Job
  • Community

• I went to community college for about a year but I'd started taking music seriously by then so I dropped out.

  

  Caitlin Rose
  • Music
  • Community
  • College

• An American orchestra doesn't want to play more than it has to. I respectfully disagree with that attitude.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • American
  • Want
  • Attitude

• Just when did I get to the point when staying at a hotel wasn't fun?

  

  Ira Glass
  • Fun
  • Point
  • Hotel

• The black community is my community - the LGBT community, too, and the female community. That is my community. That's me; it's who I am.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Community
  • Female
  • LGBT

• Despite all the criticisms that have been leveled at the comics community, both in terms of fans and creators, I have always felt more comfortable and accepted in the comics community than I have in any other medium of publishing that I've had the pleasure of working in.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Community
  • Always
  • Pleasure

• When I left Cambridge, I applied to regional repertory theaters in the U.K. and got accepted by one of them... And here I am, still at it.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Accepted
  • Theaters

• I realized that becoming a doctor, I can only help a small community. But by becoming a politician, I can help my whole country.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Country
  • Help
  • Small

• When I was a kid, I inhaled. Frequently. That was the point.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Kid
  • Point
  • Inhale

• It is probably true to say that the largest scope for change still lies in men’s attitude to women, and in women’s attitude to themselves.

  

  Vera Brittain
  • Men
  • Women
  • True

• God deserves more love than the world gives him. Men, too, need more love than they receive from the world. Our community wants to take her place where these two needs meet.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • World
  • God
  • Men

• Read the editorial page of your local paper. It introduces you to opinion and can be terrifically provocative and perhaps a great motivating force for you to get involved in your community, regardless of your political ideology.

  

  Sarah Jessica Parker
  • Political
  • Community
  • Opinion

• I usually describe my father as a man given to impenetrable solitude. If I turn the phrase I can apply it to Johnny. Impenetrable happiness. For a long time I couldn't enter his life because his happiness, or appearance of happiness - his unending smiles - locked the door. An ingenious strategy, to surround the thorns with a castle.

  

  Elizabeth Hay
  • Happiness
  • Solitude
  • Strategy

• Atheists have just as much civil right to teach atheism as Christians have to teach Christianity; agnostics have just as much right to teach agnosticism as Christians have to teach their religion.

  

  William Jennings Bryan
  • Christian
  • Christianity
  • Atheist

• The consciousness-expanding drugs - the hallucinogens, such as cannabis, mescaline, LSD, Psylocybin - I think are useful to a writer up to a certain point. That is, they open psychic areas that would not otherwise be available to the writer. But I feel that once these areas have been opened and the writer has reached them, he is able to get back there in the future without the drug.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Thinking
  • Drug
  • Consciousness

• I feel like I was more accepted by the white community than the black [one]. A lot of the time, the black kids would be like, ‘Oh, ’cause you lighter, you’re not as “gang” as us. That’s really the attitude they have. It made me misbehave more because I felt like I had to prove a point.

  

  AJ Tracey
  • Community
  • Attitude
  • Point