Tananarive Due Quotes
Somehow, I realized I could write books about black characters who reflected my own experiences or otherworldly experiences - not just stories of history, poverty and oppression.
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God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
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Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.
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Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It's all part of the same person but it's a much newer medium for me.
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I'm happy that all my films are different from one another.
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I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.
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The stage is the best experience in the world. It's a great compliment to be able to share the music, because people can hear my album but they don't get to make the connection in the same way as when it's one-to-one.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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I rarely cook traditional risotto, but I love other grains cooked similarly - barley, spelt or split wheat. I find they have more character than rice and absorb other flavours more wholeheartedly.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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It's hard to say, 'I don't believe in God.' I would love to know if God exists. But it's a very difficult thing for me to believe.
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I think anyone that isn't fired up right now shouldn't probably be out here.
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Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.
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So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it.
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I didn't start exercising until the end of my modeling career. When you're young, you eat and drink what you want and stay up all night and still look good.
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Up until now, I had ideas that I wanted to try but didn't have the opportunity to do them.
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I felt more like a scientist exploring nature, and Windows was my environment. You don't pass judgment on nature; you just explain how it works.
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It is not history, theology or mythology that interest me. It is the fact that history, theology or mythology could have alternative interpretations or explanations. I try to connect the dots between the past and the present.
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Somehow, I realized I could write books about black characters who reflected my own experiences or otherworldly experiences - not just stories of history, poverty and oppression.
