Antoinette Brown Blackwell Quotes
If human justice is to supplement Nature's provisions, all family duties must be shared equitably, in person or by proxy.
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I made up 'Badlands'; anything I say, goes. I came to realize I was materializing a metaphor for my mental state.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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We can only restore faith in government if the state itself becomes an efficient, effective and transparent ally of the people. Bureaucratic inefficiencies, abuses of power and the misappropriation of public funds must end.
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Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?
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I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.
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I grew up in New York City - I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a New Yorker. All of the different boroughs and all of the different sounds.
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I love women.
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I'm not interested so much in collaboration. You see that from the history of my albums.
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I didn't aim at anything except good music.
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Tell a man that he is putting on a stage performance in order to get what he wants, and he will irritably reject your observation. Why? Because most people go through life as cunning actors with a permanent horror of getting found out.
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What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.
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Food as a hobby used to be an elite pastime, and it has become something that is totally ordinary for people of every background. In that way, we see the growing up of the American food scene: that it's okay to be a regular person and be really into food.
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Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.
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In those days I was new to covers; merely felt pleased that a story of mine had been honored. I later met Rogers who did some of my early covers and I was impressed with him.
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He's the bafflement of Scotland Yard, the Flying Squad's despair: For when they reach the scene of crime - Macavity's not there!
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Knowing was better than not knowing. But not by much.
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Singing has opened so many doors for me. And that's definitely a true passion of mine. It's a natural, God-given gift.
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I have spent my life reassembling the family farm.
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I was the youngest and only girl in a family of two older brothers.
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The wheel and the brake have different duties, but also one in common: to hurt one another.
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If human justice is to supplement Nature's provisions, all family duties must be shared equitably, in person or by proxy.
