Barbara Smith Quotes
One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.
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The first job I ever had was at a pool-liner-manufacturing plant. Minimum wage was $4.25, and that's what I was making. It was this huge, hot, un-air-conditioned factory staffed with all women and me. This is in Georgia, during the summertime, so it was pretty ridiculous.
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I just don't think that I could be the kind of actor I want to be and not be honest with myself. Honesty is very important to me as an actor and as a person. I didn't even think about it.
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Thanks to aid, a distressing number of African leaders care little about what their citizens want or need - after all it's the reverse of the Boston tea-party - no representation without taxation.
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My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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Women dress very much according to their moods, so when you see their shoes, it really shows you the character and what they want to show to the world, and what they are feeling at that time.
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.
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I want a future where my children feel safe and appreciated and proud to be who they are. My heart is one with all the Arab Spring heroes, no matter how small they think their role is. I know they believe, like me, that we are working for a world whereby an Arab can live with the other in a respectful and dignified way.
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I want the single player experience.
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I think I'm a songwriter. I grab an instrument to make my body a song, but I'm not a player as such, maybe a little more on guitar, but certainly not piano.
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Soon, I'll be like all the others. The time will come for all of us, but the ideas of the Cuban Communists will remain.
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As a child, I wanted to go into advertising. I had a love affair with the advertising industry.
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Fans can never accuse R. Kelly of doing the same thing; I keep mixing it up.
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The funny thing is that my husband couldn't be sweeter. He looks like this bad boy. He's got tattoos and earrings and a mohawk, but when you talk to him and he's around you, he's such a gentleman. He holds doors for ladies. He pulls out chairs. He cooks. He cleans.
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I love things that are harsh and things that are too loud. And I love lulling people into a false sense of security. That's life.
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Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
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I was interested in the war part of 'Star Wars,' so I started reading about what it's like to go to war, what that does to you psychically, about the adrenaline and the rush.
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The undue influence of money on our politics is like a cancer underlying other cancers, the issue underlying all other issues.
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'Cause movies are human drama, that's it.
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Way Down South in Dixie (Break the heart of me) They hung my black young lover To a cross roads tree.
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One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.
