Angie Thomas Quotes
I knew there were calls for diversity in children's lit, but you always wonder as a person of color, how diverse is too diverse?
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
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Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same time, I don't think one should ever feel like attempting a kind of artistic endeavor is beyond your scope just because of age or inexperience.
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I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.
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It is fantastic to be found in a foreign country.
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I've been lucky because Hollywood can be harsh and try to pigeonhole you. I've done TV, films, and comedy, done it all... I think I'm spread out evenly among the film community. I've been lucky and keep working with great actors.
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What drew me towards team sport were the camaraderie and friendship. The chance to celebrate victory and success with a group of other people is something I have enjoyed doing.
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Our music has been an incredible gift to help us make a difference.
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The Arab awakening was driven by youth, organized by technology, and fired by a hunger for political change.
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Video games seem to be mostly a boy thing - viewed by young boys and created by big boys. I believe that if more videos games were created by women, the violence in these games - especially against women - would be rapidly toned down.
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In a universe that's an intelligent system with a divine creative force supporting it, there simply can be no accidents. As tough as it is to acknowledge, you had to go through what you went through in order to get to where you are today, and the evidence is that you did.
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I was a bit overweight as a teenager, which may be why I'm more comfortable playing with clothes than showing my body.
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The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
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Scientifically speaking, if I say something, or it gets misquoted, or people put a spin on it... I mean, are you interested, really, in what people are saying?
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I can never really enjoy being famous.
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Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
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Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.
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However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.
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I really believe in people putting stories out there that contain the most difficult moments because nothing to me is more lonely making than sanitized stories or airbrushed stories that kind of allied how hard it got.
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I used to think that my songs were the best things that I would leave behind me. And I definitely think my kids are now. For starters, they're writing better songs than I was at their age.
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Sometimes at night I think that my husband is with me again, coming gently through the mists, and we are tranquil together. Then the morning comes, the wavering grey turns to gold, there is stirring within me as the sleepers awake, and he softly departs.
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As a samurai, I must strengthen my character; as a human being I must perfect my spirit
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I knew there were calls for diversity in children's lit, but you always wonder as a person of color, how diverse is too diverse?
