Antoinette Brown Blackwell Quotes
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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It's important for women to work. They need to keep their independence, to keep earning and being challenged.
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I love women more than anything.
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If somebody wants to go to church because they like the ritual of it and want to sit in silence for a while one time a week, then that's great. If someone wants to go because they believe that God them and Jesus rose after three days, then that's great, too.
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If I'm so popular, why did they replace me with Tommy Thayer?
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Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.
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I personally have a pretty open philosophy about trying to talk to the press, and so does Dan Bartlett.
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Now, I love playing moms who can't hide their paranoia.
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My life is so full of sacrifices.
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Separate is not equal. Civil unions are civil unions. Marriage is marriage. They're different institutions.
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Some movies to me are like vampires – they suck all of the energy out of me and I don't like that. I like to give the audience energy if I can.
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I'm afraid of the dark, so I have a lot of night-lights.
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It didn't take long to recognise the shortcomings of the Soviet regime and to see the values of the free world.
Garry Kasparov -
The kind of world I'm endlessly going on about is pretty well doomed, but nevertheless I think there are recesses of it worth celebrating.
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Everyday, all day I have to be productive. And when I ain't productive, I get concerned.
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Institutional Buddhism has been conspicuously ready to accept or ignore the inequalities and tyrannies of whatever political system it found itself under. This can be death to Buddhism, because it is death to any meaningful function of compassion.
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Much of the magical effect that poetry gives of rendering everything it touches pellucid comes from the necessity of compression that it imposes. The impossibility of pausing in poetry as long as may be needed to make sense clear causes many a set of words actually deficient in linguistic workmanship to pass for an eloquent brevity.
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And if there is one thing that he and this year’s anniversary should teach us, if there’s one lesson I hope that Malia and Sasha and young people everywhere learn from this day, it’s that with enough effort, and enough empathy, and enough perseverance, and enough courage, people who love their country can change it.
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I listen to anything anyone gives me. I always go back to a few basic favorites. I can always listen to Django Reinhardt and hear something I haven't heard before. I like to listen to Art Tatum and Coltrane and Charlie Parker. Those are guys who never seem to run out of ideas.
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It's a mature thing to understand that your pictures of a lifetime together with someone were... well, the reality is not what we're taught.
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Another side to me is this very sexual being. When I look back on my life, it's always been there. It's been there since I was 10 years old, having the imagination that I had.
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But the fall of Ramadi has galvanized the Iraqi government. So, with the additional steps I ordered last month, we’re speeding up training of ISIL forces, including volunteers from Sunni tribes in Anbar Province.
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Music, many times, around the world, serves to help us understand other people without having to talk.
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The law of grab is the primal law of infancy.