Angela McGlowan Quotes

Well, like most black Americans, I grew up thinking I was supposed to be a Democrat. It wasn't even something you questioned or thought twice about. Black equaled Democrat.

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• What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?

  

  Rachel Cusk
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• For nearly a century and a half, this country deluded itself into thinking that its greatest calamity, the Civil War, had nothing to do with one of its greatest sins, enslavement. It deluded itself in this manner despite available evidence to the contrary.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Thinking
  • Country
  • War

• I don't feel like an idol to anybody. I don't feel anybody should look up to me.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Should

• One of my personal plights in this business is about playing 'The Sassy Black Girl.'

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Business
  • Black
  • Girl

• Growing up in a small town gives you two things: a sense of place and a feeling of self-consciousness - self-consciousness about one's education and exposure, both of which tend to be limited. On the other hand, limited possibilities also mean creating your own options.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
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• I don't care about what people might call my style. It's just like when people call my music 'jangly,' 'dream,' 'oceanside,' whatever - I don't care. I'm just wearing whatever I can scrap together.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • People
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• My parents would always say, 'It doesnt' matter if it's a guy picking up the garbage or the President of the United States, treat everybody as you would want to be treated.

  

  Dan Marino
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  • Want

• Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Up
  • World
  • Dream

• The year 2013 has been very difficult, with a lot of headwinds in almost every region and every business.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Business
  • Difficult
  • Year

• I suffer from low self-esteem. I had horrible self-esteem growing up. You really have to save yourself because the critic within you will eat you up. It's not the outside world - it's your interior life, that critic within you, that you have to silence.

  

  Iman
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  • World

• You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Life
  • Up
  • Dream

• There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that's remarkably rare.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
  • People
  • Up
  • Courage

• There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

  

  Washington Irving
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  • Heart
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• I always want to go back and do stand-up; I like the freedom.

  

  Wanda Sykes
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  • Want
  • Freedom

• I really believe deep in my soul that we're going to have to step up and face these challenges and be tough and pull together and unify and be creative and be willing to sacrifice.

  

  Zach Wamp
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  • Believe
  • Together

• I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
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  • Family
  • Man

• My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

  

  Taylor Swift
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  • Time
  • Happy

• The black press, some liberal sportswriters, and even a few politicians were banging away at those Jim Crow barriers in baseball. I never expected the walls to come tumbling down in my lifetime.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Black
  • Baseball
  • Down

• Being an outsider means not being heard, not having a voice. It means being treated as a second-class citizen, being diminished in the eyes of others. We have all felt this way at one time or another, but some feel it more consistently. Unfortunately, our schools often do not embrace the talents of many of their occupants.

  

  Chris Crutcher
  • Time
  • Eyes

• First and foremost, it's important to remember that, from my perspective at least, my most important legacy was making sure that the world didn't go into a Great Depression.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Great
  • Important

• I love to act. And oh-so-love telling stories through film as an actor. Even on my 'days off.'

  

  T. J. Thyne
  • Film
  • Stories
  • Actor

• The boundary between neurology and psychiatry is becoming increasingly blurred, and it's only a matter of time before psychiatry becomes just another branch of neurology.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Time
  • Matter
  • Blurred

• My mother's first career was physical therapy, her second was writer, and her third career was president of an organic fertilizer company. And she's driven a tank.

  

  Betsy Hodges
  • She
  • Mother
  • Career

• Well, like most black Americans, I grew up thinking I was supposed to be a Democrat. It wasn't even something you questioned or thought twice about. Black equaled Democrat.

  

  Angela McGlowan
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