Amandla Stenberg Quotes
I do think that my generation is really smart and wants to have political conversations, and so I hope that we can continue spreading our ideas and being able to change how our systems work. So, I guess being an all-American to me is being someone who questions things.
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I want to pursue a career in film.
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If you look back on the breakups that you've had, whether it's a long relationship or a one-night stand, it's always awkward.
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I feared vulnerability more than my actual emotional pain itself!
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We solve last year's problems without thinking about the future.
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What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.
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Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
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For me, having a balance between work and personal life is very important.
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As a general rule, man strives to avoid labor. Love for work is not at all an inborn characteristic: it is created by economic pressure and social education. One may even say that man is a fairly lazy animal. It is on this quality, in reality, that is founded to a considerable extent all human progress; because if man did not strive to expend his energy economically, did not seek to receive the largest possible quantity of products in return for a small quantity of energy, there would have been no technical development or social culture.
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I do think that my generation is really smart and wants to have political conversations, and so I hope that we can continue spreading our ideas and being able to change how our systems work. So, I guess being an all-American to me is being someone who questions things.
