Arna Bontemps Quotes
How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.
Arna Bontemps
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I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.
Eddie Izzard
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I have a lot of passion for a lot of different things.
Larry Wilmore
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When I graduated high school, I bought a guitar and, at first, didn't really think I'd get into the songwriting thing as much as I did. But after learning a few songs of other people's to play on the guitar, I got bored with that and just started writing songs on my own, and that's kinda how it came about.
Sam Hunt
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There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing.
Fiona Shaw
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When I discover who I am, I'll be free.
Ralph Ellison
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When you're a fledgling youth-type adult, it appears that all people in their 40s look old enough to be in a painting hanging on the wall of a stately home in England. It's not until you limp into your 70s that people in their 40s look too young to vote, and college cheerleaders closely resemble Yorkshire terriers.
Dan Jenkins
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As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.
Ha-Joon Chang
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My parents would make huge crops of sometimes 55 to 60 bales of cotton. Being from a big family where there were 20 children, it wasn't too hard to pick that much cotton. But my father, year after year, didn't get too much money and I remember he just kept going.
Fannie Lou Hamer
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I owe everything to 'Arrested Development.' It just shows that everybody is kind of a job away from having relevance again.
Jason Bateman
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Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy. I did not move a muscle when I first heard that the atom bomb had wiped out Hiroshima. On the contrary, I said to myself, Unless now the world adopts non-violence, it will spell certain suicide for mankind.
Mahatma Gandhi
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How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.
Arna Bontemps