Margo Jefferson Quotes
Fashion for my mother was about asserting and demonstrating you had aesthetics, tastes, sensibility, manners, beauty - qualities that black people were always trying to prove they possessed, because it was often assumed that we didn't.
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I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I'm giving you myself in the music. There's where the connection comes from; you can't Twitter that.
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I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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Our leaders must hear us speaking on behalf of our brothers and sisters in South Sudan. If the moral duty to save lives and work toward peace is not compelling enough to drive decision-makers, we must remind them that we care and will hold them accountable.
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I like to get suggestions on what to read. I'll look at Twitter, people I like, people I admire... I'll go and research the book, download it on my phone and read it while I'm on the road.
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My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night.
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The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.
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I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.
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A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
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I was lucky to have my allergist who diagnosed me with CIU.
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A win for one is a win for all - and I'm not just saying that because Dumas did.
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Only in spontaneity can we be who we truly are.
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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I'm not a materialistic person.
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Our music comes from our hearts - and it always has.
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Male athletes don't get dropped when they father kids.
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I love working in New York.
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Do you remember any instance where tyranny was destroyed and freedom established on its ruins, among a people possessing so small a share of virtue and public spirit? I recollect none, and this more than the British arms makes me fearful of final success, without a reform.
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I think that's one of the most unique and potentially powerful things about reddit - people come for the news, and stay for the community.
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My observation on most people in national governments is that they have very little interest in and very little knowledge of the multinational institutions.
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Thanks to having my dad travel with me, I don't feel quite cut off from my family.
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I love anything really feminine. I love any sort of girly detail - anything with a bow or a heart on it, I'm immediately in love with.
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Fashion for my mother was about asserting and demonstrating you had aesthetics, tastes, sensibility, manners, beauty - qualities that black people were always trying to prove they possessed, because it was often assumed that we didn't.
