Ashanti (Ashanti Shequoiya Douglas) Quotes

When I'm not performing? I'm looking for the next big thing.

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• I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • People
  • Great
  • God

• Racism still exists in the sport of boxing.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Racism
  • Boxing
  • Still

• If you're human, you've had phases in your life when things are in flux.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • You
  • Human

• They're not willing to admit that I've also shed blood and tears and often paid dearly for my success. This makes me feel extremely sad.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Success
  • Me
  • Sad

• There's not a blueprint for me to follow.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Me
  • Follow
  • Blueprint

• One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Questions

• I always say, one way to connect with a working mother is to ask her what she has done before work that day!

  

  Raney Aronson-Rath
  • Work
  • Mother
  • Connect

• I tested on a lot of TV shows and films after I finished drama school.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • School
  • Drama
  • TV Shows

• True refuge is that which allows us to be at home, at peace, to discover true happiness. The only thing that can give us true refuge is the awareness and love that is intrinsic to who we are. Ultimately, it's our own true nature.

  

  Tara Brach
  • True
  • Nature
  • Happiness

• These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don't know who is calling that child.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Long
  • Children
  • Night

• If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Me
  • Equal
  • Affection

• When resources are degraded, we start competing for them, whether it is at the local level in Kenya, where we had tribal clashes over land and water, or at the global level, where we are fighting over water, oil, and minerals. So one way to promote peace is to promote sustainable management and equitable distribution of resources.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Peace
  • Water
  • Fighting

• A lot of people have come with 100 songs and never had the impact that I have with one, and I'm well aware of that.

  

  OMI
  • People
  • Never
  • Impact

• Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at the mercy of the work at hand.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Good
  • Work
  • Hand

• The team at ASCAP is a genuine family, and I am proud to be part of an organization that is home to so many legendary songwriters and composers.

  

  Maluma
  • Family
  • Home
  • Team

• The sad thing about destroying the environment is that we're going to take the rest of life with us. The bluebirds will be gone, and the elephants will be gone, and the tigers will be gone, and the pandas will be gone.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Environment

• Most writers flinch at the thought of being completely honest about themselves. So absolute honesty is what marks the true modern.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • True
  • Thought
  • Honesty

• We like lists because we don't want to die.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Want
  • Die
  • Like

• 'No Sweetness Here' is the kind of old-fashioned social realism I have always been drawn to in fiction, and it does what I think all good literature should: It entertains you.

  

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • Good
  • Literature

• Certainly, my manager Gary Ungar was the first person to give me any attention and hustle for me. This was back in 2009.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Me
  • Attention
  • Manager

• There are some beautiful things about people like Katy Perry, who are bold enough to go up on a pink cotton-candy cloud, with a guitar, in a tutu, and sing all by herself.

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
  • People
  • Things
  • Katy Perry

• 'Successive technological revolutions have immeasurably widened the psychological gap between generations. With some reason, perhaps, the man of the age of electricity and of the airplane feels himself removed from his masters.'

  

  Marc Bloch
  • Age
  • Airplane

• Sleep is such a potent, liminal state, and I don't want to drag anything in there that doesn't need to be there.

  

  Bellamy Young
  • Sleep
  • Drag
  • Potent

• When I'm not performing? I'm looking for the next big thing.

  

  Ashanti