Angie Thomas Quotes
We see organizations that target young black men to give them direction in life, but so often, black girls are missed. I wanted to represent them.

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When you have kids, you instantly feel that you do not want to do them wrong. Those dads that go off to Florida and start a new life, I couldn't imagine that: seeing my kid once every Christmas, every three years. If I'm gone for six days it feels like too much.
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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
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When in life do you get a black and white printout that says this is what you should do? It just doesn't happen.
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It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth.
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Black-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word means.
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I had a high school sweetheart that was my first. We were together all through high school. I had just broken up with him because I didn't think I was good enough. He wanted to be an anesthesiologist. I wanted to be an entertainer. His life was more planned out, and mine wasn't.
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I'm the type of person who likes to enjoy everything that I do, take advantage of every opportunity in life.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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When life catches up with us, we all need space to dream and indulge, so I have created my own special range of bath & beauty loveliness to help you find your happy place.
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I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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In married life three is company and two none.
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When you come across someone colorful and vibrant maybe in the present it isn't so interesting, but, in the past, it sheds a wonderful light onto living life.
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I've always been aware of my health - when you are having to go on stage and perform, you need to be feeling good - but when I was diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, I became really, really conscious of my health.
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Women want to feel wanted. Men want to feel needed.
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When it comes to literal nourishment, the food we eat, life begets life.
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I had spent time in New York, where I loved the idea that theater could be done up in tiny little rooms rather than for lots of money on a big stage, and be tied to ordinary life.
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People, in whatever walk of life, would be surprised if they just gave themselves a chance by believing in what they are.
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All your life you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye, and when something nudges it into outline it is like being ambushed by a grotesque.
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Music is an extraordinary vehicle for expressing emotion - very powerful emotions. That's what draws millions of people towards it. And, um, I found myself always going for these darker places and - people identify with that.
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But we did conclude that Ray had actually killed Dr. King pursuant to his theory that he was going to be able to get hold of that money. He had learned of this offer through his ties in the Missouri State Penitentiary.
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There are old riders and bold riders, but no old bold riders.
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The others wolves would devour me if they could know that my roar is, in reality, a crying.
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We see organizations that target young black men to give them direction in life, but so often, black girls are missed. I wanted to represent them.