Leslie Odom, Jr. Quotes
When I see the black experience - there's not one, but it is specific, and you can't ignore it.
Quotes to Explore
-
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
-
I love Bridget Fonda.
-
Any form of art is political if you make it that way.
-
As a member of the audience I don't like it that I can't see what's going on in the eyes and in the face and in the most subtle responses of a performer when I'm more than a few rows back. I find it very frustrating.
-
The poorer people and criminals of Mexico who are not very religious but not quite atheists, either, worship Saint Death.
-
I'm aware of the decisions I make and the responsibility I have as a role model. I wouldn't disregard that. It's a privilege.
-
Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
-
It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
-
Time is the devourer of all things.
-
Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
-
Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
-
I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh.
-
I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
-
Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
-
America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.
-
To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
-
Energy has become a national security issue and as technology continues to improve, there will be more debates like the one on Keystone.
-
A day with my kids is the best day.
-
And wouldn't we be better off if every New Year's, we thought about the things we did right and we resolved to keep doing them, no matter how wacky they were.
-
As a white queer person of a certain degree of economic privilege, I think that my ability to pass as straight is a privilege that other folk I know don't have. It's important to keep in mind who really is in the most trouble and to direct our attention to assisting those people.
-
The school I went to was a little farm school in Wannaska, student body 61 or something. There was a kid, the only black kid in our county, Dustin Byfuglien. He won the Stanley Cup a couple years back with the Blackhawks. Out of a class of 21 kids, he and I always had to be on opposite teams on everything because we were the most athletic.
-
We [the Subban brothers] are role models to a lot of kids, not just black kids, but all kids out there and that's what we want to be known for.
-
When I see the black experience - there's not one, but it is specific, and you can't ignore it.
