Angie Thomas Quotes

I think that the more of us who take the time to understand how someone else is feeling, the more likely we are to resist alongside them.

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• I wouldn't be where I am without Evolve.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Evolve

• Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.

  

  Laura Riding
  • Experience
  • Poetry
  • Possible

• 'Grey's Anatomy' is a very culturally diverse show.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Show
  • Very
  • Grey

• Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Power
  • Politics
  • Influence

• Natural gas is a better transportation fuel than gasoline, so if that's the case, it's cheaper, it's cleaner and it's a domestic resource.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Better
  • Environmental
  • Fuel

• Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.

  

  Malcolm D. Lee
  • Time
  • Music
  • Money

• I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Done
  • Mother
  • Pretty

• I think it's important to experience kindness so that you can experience it more in the future. I believe that patterns of emotional behavior are set down before adolescence. And I think that if you have not observed kindness, you will not recognize it. You have to experience kindness in order to be kind.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Experience

• I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Think
  • Tree
  • Possible

• No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • People
  • Real
  • Past

• The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

  

  Ovid
  • Man
  • Sea
  • Calm

• I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Happy
  • High
  • Happiness

• I wasn't a major in political science for nothing, so I understood the politics of beauty and the politics of race when it comes to the fashion industry.

  

  Iman
  • Science
  • Political
  • Fashion

• Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Today
  • Discipline
  • Outside

• In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Next
  • Landscape
  • Extinction

• A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.

  

  Edith Hamilton
  • People
  • Great
  • Real

• The unyielding resistance of the Cuban patriots is symbolized by our 5 Heroes. They shall never back down! They shall never surrender!

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Down
  • Heroes
  • Resistance

• Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • God
  • Air
  • Wind

• On Halloween, because we don't celebrate it, my dad would drive me somewhere, anywhere different. Like Little Italy in New York to walk around and teach me all about the food and culture.

  

  SZA
  • Different
  • Culture
  • Food

• i discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well-deserved reward of an ordered mind, but just the opposite: a complete system of pretense invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Nature

• Monterey, I remember, but I seem to remember the Fillmore West, that we played the week before Monterey. That was much more memorable for me. The first time in San Francisco. They were good gigs.

  

  Roger Daltrey The Who
  • Time
  • Good
  • Remember

• Television has certain imperatives that CNN had the luxury of ignoring for a long period of time. CNN could take the position that the news would be the star, because in most of the programming day, they were the only all-news operation on the air.

  

  Brit Hume
  • Time
  • Long
  • Star

• I think that the more of us who take the time to understand how someone else is feeling, the more likely we are to resist alongside them.

  

  Angie Thomas
  • Time
  • Feeling