Jackie Robinson Quotes
After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job.
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I'm a very feminine person, but I have this hard shell, man, and I stay focused and don't take things personally.
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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
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Desire is the very essence of man.
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Growing up, Tina Turner was definitely one of my influences, and, um, I take things from different artists, and I put them in my music, and I put them in my persona and my - they help me form into the artist that I am, so - for people to actually hear that come through the music is exciting.
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I'm not against gay people. I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way.
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No, there are no hard and fast rules about sources, no printed booklet to help journalists through.
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Shoes are very emotional. For women, they carry the message that you want to give to the world. One day you want to be sexy, or super powerful at your job - you wear a great pump. If you want to be on-the-go and running after your kids - you wear a great flat.
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A man is known by the silence he keeps.
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To be black in the Baltimore of my youth was to be naked before the elements of the world.
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I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.
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Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.
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Granny beads are what they're called when a grandma works the garden all day - you always see them - they have a handkerchief around their neck with a lot of dust on them, and then the sweat will go down and make these black beads of sweat and dirt around their neck. And that's what they call granny beads.
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'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
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What do you think will happen in a forced marriage? With an uneducated man, an animal. What would I say, that I am already married? Why would I say it? I never accepted him as my husband in my heart or mind. How I spent a year and a half with him, only I know. And I only did it because of the child.
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Any job is wonderful.
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Of course, my family helped me, my brothers helped me, but after I set up my own office I had to really help myself. Some people seem to think I had an oil well in my garden! It's a nice idea but not true.
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Oh, how I vainly wished to the bearded man in the sky that I was Neapolitan. Why? So I could bring in a fine Neapolitan pest control to help with Queensberry's problem before it gets out of hand.
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There's no ego when you're a ukulele player.
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The process of discovery in my field is very incremental. But there are moments when you realize you know something about the world nobody else knows. That's extraordinarily exhilarating.
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When I came to America, I told my dad I wanted to be an actress.
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But we should be mindful as we argue about our differences that so much more unites than divides us. We should also note that our differences, when compared with those in many, if not most, other countries, are smaller than we sometimes imagine them to be.
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After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job.
