bell hooks Quotes
Until the legacy of remembered and reenacted trauma is taken seriously, black America cannot heal.
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Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.
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In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn't do just one thing.
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I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.
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Cornish wrestling was very different from that in Devon - it was less brutal, as no kicking was allowed.
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I have a little basement studio set up here at my house, and I do probably 80 percent of the recording here on my own. With multi-tracking technology, I can play various parts on top of one another.
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
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I think a lot of Bernstein - but not as much as he does.
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I was often told that I wasn't a thing. 'She's not pretty enough. She's not tall enough. She's not thin enough. She's not fat enough.' I thought, 'O.K., someday you're going to be looking for someone not, not, not, not, and there I'll be.'
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I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
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It's so important your customer can rely on you for your classics.
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You don't need to raise taxes on rich people, because they create capitalization and investment. But you need to tax speculation - meaning capital gains.
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When you're making a pilot, what you're mostly thinking is, 'Please let this be a real job, please.'
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Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
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The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.
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I don't have time for easy. Tennis is just hard.
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I'm by no means condemning prescription medicine for mental health. I've seen it save a lot of people's lives.
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When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the '70s and '80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law.
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If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.
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I am built close to the ground and of extravagant body.
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The less you 'think' you know, the greater your ability to learn and grow.
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My friend Anderson Cooper is the scion of one of America's great shipping and railroad families, the Vanderbilts.
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Until the legacy of remembered and reenacted trauma is taken seriously, black America cannot heal.
