Antoinette Brown Blackwell Quotes
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But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.
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There was not a single Negro slave owner who did not know dozens of Negroes just as capable of learning and efficiency as the mass of poor white people around and about, and some quite as capable as the average slaveholder. They had continually, in the course of the history of slavery, recognized such men.
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I'm not obsessively a follower of fashion in the way I used to be. But I still have all those magazines I bought at the time because I bought ones that felt a little timeless, more like books.
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As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.
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When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.
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I have many debates now with friends on the changes, and the continuing confusion over bringing up your children, instilling values, letting them make the right choices.
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I have the support of my parents and my teachers. They made it very possible for me to go to a school that is open and supportive of me being gone at times and pursuing acting. But school always comes first for me.
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I would consider myself conservative but sensible and pragmatic.
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Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken.
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The young whites, and blacks, too, are the only hope that America has, the rest of us have always been living in a lie.
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To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week’s newspapers.
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Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
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It is the vocation of each person to become unique.
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So enough with the bigotry and bombast. Donald Trump's not offering real change. He's offering empty promises.
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Man's hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or a moaning dove.
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A man who doesn’t drink is not, in my opinion, fully a man.
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I am a goal setter and I set more goals everyday. I keep lists of goals in my office to stay on track.
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Inside me there are two people. One is a very aggressive - I want to win; I won the Premier League, but now I want to win on Saturday. I want to win next season - and is never satisfied.
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Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.
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When I was a kid you always heard about the Israeli army and you always heard about this tiny little country and how everyone around them wants them gone, and every time somebody comes after them they take care of business. And so as a Jewish kid you were proud of that.
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Buddhism is a hundred times as realistic as Christianity it is part of its living heritage that it is able to face problems objectively and coolly; it is the product of long centuries of philosophical speculation.
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It's kind of the period of your career where as a fighter, you need some sort of validation from time to time. I mean, winning matches and going off to the next one, without really having any direction, it's fun, but it's good to have a period where you can say "Ok, I won a title. Ok, I got picked up by a big organization." So every step in there is important.
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Slavery is malignantly aristocratic.
