Patricia Hill Collins Quotes
Far too many black men who praise their own mother feel less accounted to the mothers of their own children.Patricia Hill Collins
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Anyone can wear any color. The question is about finding the right shade. There is a momentary trend to dark colors because when the financials are not that great, people go for black, navy and grey.
Ozwald Boateng -
A society of 'children first' is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone.
Yoshihiko Noda -
Laughing and crying are very similar. They're an extreme response to life. You see it in children who start laughing hysterically.
Tamsin Greig -
We must build relationships, get to know one another's children, open our arms rather than close our hearts.
Mandy Patinkin -
I'm comfortably asocial - a hermit in the middle of a large city, a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty and drive.
Octavia E. Butler -
We did some research that showed that the very first word of your message that you send a girl - when we looked at men sending messages to women - the very first word can have a tremendous... can have a very accurate prediction of whether you're going to get a reply.
Sam Yagan
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My 80-year-old mother will not buy her heart medicine because it cost more than she can pay with social security. She is America.
Jack Bowman -
Children crave routine and find listening to the same stories over and over again soothing. If you've grown weary of the holiday books you've read your kid 7,883 times, try adding 'dude' to the end of every line of dialogue.
Adam Mansbach -
I believe the question now is: who murdered my mother?
Sam Sheppard -
How do you tell your mother that you feel you're getting... old? If I'm... old, then what is she?
Gail Parent -
One of the things that I like about 'Narcos' is that not only Pablo but with all the characters - this is not a black and white show. This is not a regular American cop show where two cool cops go to save a country from a bad guy. All the characters are very complex.
Wagner Moura -
I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
Oscar Wilde
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My father was a writer; I've known a lot of children of writers - daughters and sons of writers, and it can be a hard way to grow up.
Caitlin Flanagan -
The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.
Quentin Crisp -
As a heterosexual man, I've never really doubted my sexuality, but I've had men in my life and thought, 'If I was gay, I'd be with him' - you know?
Garret Dillahunt -
Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs.
Ogden Nash -
Guided by nothing but pop culture values, many children no longer learn how to think about morality and virtue, or to think of them at all. They grow up with no shared moral framework, believing that the highest values are diversity, tolerance and non-judgmentalism.
Gary Bauer -
When you were growing up in the 30s, 20s, of course the 40s, all black people at least in the Washington, D.C., area were required to live among themselves.
Ed Smith
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I've jokingly painted some of my favorite collectors as black men, so there's a really great portrait of David LaChapelle, the photographer - my version of him - that's in his collection.
Kehinde Wiley -
Cavendish was a great Man with extraordinary singularities-His voice was squeaking his manner nervous He was afraid of strangers & seemed when embarrassed to articulate with difficulty-He wore the costume of our grandfathers. Was enormously rich but made no use of his wealth... He Cavendish lived latterly the life of a solitary, came to the Club dinner & to the Royal Society: but received nobody at his home. He was acute sagacious & profound & I think the most accomplished British Philosopher of his time.
Humphry Davy -
You carry forever the fingerprint that comes from being under someone's thumb.
Nancy Banks Smith -
I can walk into a bookstore and hand over my credit card and they don't know who the hell I am. Maybe that says something about bookstore clerks.
E. L. Doctorow -
I don't really go on what people say so much; I go on their voice. I go on their energy at the time. I go on how close their arms are folded into their chest.
Jeff Buckley -
Far too many black men who praise their own mother feel less accounted to the mothers of their own children.
Patricia Hill Collins