Amandla Stenberg Quotes
Growing up, I didn't receive the representation that I wanted so badly. I was always looking out for black characters - black women - that were specifically just about existing and weren't necessarily racialized or were centered around race.
Amandla Stenberg
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
P. J. O'Rourke
The next time you're driving from New York to Boston on I-95, you should make a little detour in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, to visit the Old Slater Mill national historic landmark. It's the site of what is considered to be the first successful water-powered textile spinning mill in America.
Walt Mossberg
The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.
Rafael Nadal
One thing I really hate is experience. Experience for me doesn't work. Everybody's talking about experience this, experience that.
Yohan Blake
My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
Laura Mvula
A great sense of peace entered my body, and seemingly into every cell.
Harold E. Hughes
Life is about perspective and how you look at something... ultimately, you have to zoom out.
Whitney Wolfe Herd
When my colleagues went to endorse Rob Garagiola, nobody asked me for my opinion about that. And I didn't ask anybody else. I did what I thought was the right thing to do, and I made a decision, just like they did.
Donna Edwards
I noticed there were so many people, especially women, who would come up to me having recognized me from TV and say, 'I heard you were a math person, why math? Oh my gosh, I could never do math!' I could just see their self-esteem crumbling; I thought that was silly, so I wanted to make math more friendly and accessible.
Danica McKellar
I think if you just hang in there long enough and keep doing what you know is your sweet spot, I think the world eventually catches up to you.
Courtney B. Vance
I writhe when I see myself on the screen. I'm such a dreadfully clumsy hulking image. I say to myself, 'Why doesn't he get off? Why doesn't he get off?' I mean, I look like such an idiot. Some fat awkward thing dredged up from some third-rate drama company. I must stop thinking about it, otherwise I shan't be able to go on working.
Peter Sellers
Growing up, I didn't receive the representation that I wanted so badly. I was always looking out for black characters - black women - that were specifically just about existing and weren't necessarily racialized or were centered around race.
Amandla Stenberg
