Lucille Clifton Quotes

born in babylonboth nonwhite and womanwhat did i see to be except myself?

Lucille Clifton

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• Let me clarify it through the national news agency that I am not joining Aam Aadmi Party. There has been reports that I will be officially joining AAP, but I can assure you that nothing of that sort is happening.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Party
  • News
  • Agency

• I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Love
  • Around
  • Days

• About half the people at Valve have run their own companies, so they always have the option not just to take a job at another game company, but to go start their own company. The question you always have to answer is, 'How are we making these people more valuable than they would be elsewhere?'

  

  Gabe Newell
  • People
  • Job
  • Game

• I think hip-hop is no more misogynistic than America is as a society. I just think hip-hop is a lot more brash, a lot more bold, a lot more loquacious. There are a lot more words that go into a hip-hop song than go into a regular song.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • America
  • Song
  • Society

• In L.A., unless you've just won an Oscar or you're Mr. Studio Head, no one talks to you. Even at parties.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • You
  • Just
  • Head

• You don't do things right once in a while. You do things right all the time.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Time
  • You
  • Right

• I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Music
  • Best
  • Moment

• People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • People
  • Want
  • Hurt

• Our best comes out when we have honest discussions.

  

  Fernando Flores
  • Best
  • Honest
  • Discussions

• There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Real
  • Culture
  • Years

• If you work out 20 minutes a day in some way, you're going to see changes.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Work
  • Day
  • Changes

• My character in 'OK OK' has a lot of attitude, and it is an interesting one.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Attitude

• What is OK is to spend money for productivity. What is not OK is just to light money on fire.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Money
  • Light
  • Fire

• I am trying to be the girl I didn't have. That's important to me. I have to be conscious of that. In this weird, dark, small, very intimate way, there's a girl out there who relies on me. And that's super important to me, and I don't want to let her down.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Important
  • Girl
  • Small

• The sequester is not something that I proposed. It's something that Congress has proposed. It will not happen.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Happen
  • Propose
  • Sequester

• In fifty words: Granted mobility, security (in the form of denying targets to the enemy), time, and doctrine (the idea to convert every subject to friendliness), victory will rest with the insurgents, for the algebraical factors are in the end decisive, and against them perfections of means and spirit struggle quite in vain.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Time
  • Words
  • Rest

• People are always asking me what it's like to be Judy Garland's daughter. It's hard to be a legend's child.

  

  Lorna Luft
  • People
  • Daughter
  • Legend

• The nice thing with the Arabs is that with age comes respect.

  

  Maurice Flanagan
  • Age
  • Respect
  • Nice

• When you're being earnest, people think you're being sarcastic, and when you're being sarcastic, they think you're being earnest. The moral in all this, of course, is that people should never attempt to communicate.

  

  Charlie Brooker
  • People
  • Moral
  • Sarcastic

• Society historically has a difficult time with the concept of something new and foreign that shakes up our comfortable views, especially if it involves the very volatile question of sexual identity.

  

  Mercedes Ruehl
  • Difficult
  • Something
  • Comfortable

• To marvel at the wonders of the gospel is a sign of faith.

  

  Gerald Causse
  • Faith
  • Gospel
  • Wonders

• I don't think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you're willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention doesn't work. If you're going to invent, it means you're going to experiment, and if you're going to experiment, you're going to fail, and if you're going to fail, you have to think long term.

  

  Jeff Bezos
  • Work
  • Customers
  • Invention

• born in babylonboth nonwhite and womanwhat did i see to be except myself?

  

  Lucille Clifton