Amandla Stenberg Quotes

'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn' by Betty Smith is one of my favorites. Even though it doesn't have any monsters or crazy fantasy in it, it's such a raw story, and I can really relate to the characters. I think it's a beautiful story.

Amandla Stenberg

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• Parenting is an impossible job at any age.

  

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• I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.

  

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• The apartheid system renounces no violence.

  

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• I think there are plenty of Libertarians that are socially conservative.

  

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• Lyndon Johnson was a profoundly insecure man who feared dissent and craved reassurance. In 1964 and 1965, Johnson's principal goals were to win the presidency in his own right and to pass his Great Society legislation through Congress.

  

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• I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.

  

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• I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern' novelist, with a strong emphasis on the word 'Southern' because 'Gone With the Wind' set my mother's imagination ablaze when she was a young girl growing up in Atlanta.

  

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• I think that being Jewish is in some ways unique because there's this conflation of race, culture and religion.

  

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• Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.

  

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• The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.

  

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• The thing about Moby Dick is that, at heart, it's a very simple plot - there's only one white whale in the ocean. When you're a boy growing up in a hostile home, you imagine it's unique: it's happening only to you.

  

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• I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it.

  

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• Talking about straws and camels' backs is just one way of approaching things. If you have enough camels, no backs need be broken.

  

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• 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn' by Betty Smith is one of my favorites. Even though it doesn't have any monsters or crazy fantasy in it, it's such a raw story, and I can really relate to the characters. I think it's a beautiful story.

  

  Amandla Stenberg
  • Beautiful
  • Crazy
  • Tree