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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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Knowing was better than not knowing. But not by much.
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I was in the canon When Absalom was slain. I was in Llys Don Before the birth of Gwydion.
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When we go to explore, we do it as a globe.
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A lot of people like cabinet making; people are intrigued by it. Women in particular like cabinet making. They like it more than men do - the men are not really interested in the cabinet making.
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From blood banking to the modern subway, from jazz to social justice, the contributions of African Americans have shaped and molded and influenced our national culture and our national character.
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I was not really aware of the dystopian genre before I read 'The Handmaid's Tale.' Many poets as well, like John Donne and Emily Dickinson, would be the influences; I specialized in Emily Dickinson at university. Both of those poets have really interesting ways of looking at life and death.
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I might live in the woods, but I am a lazy actor.
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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.
