Khalid (Khalid Donnel Robinson) Quotes
It's my job to accept my youth, to spread my story, to let people know who I am as an individual, because there's so many people who are blinded and think less of me because of my skin color.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.
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There is so much to do in my house, in every little corner. It's just like anybody, it's like one step at a time. I try to decorate one space and a pipe breaks or whatever - you know how it is.
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Belgian chocolate is my weakness. I like over 72 percent cacao, which shows you how much of a dark chocolate snob I am.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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Relationships can be very traumatic. But being in a healthy relationship can be very empowering.
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We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.
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I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
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Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.
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There's nothing wrong with looking like a woman and going in the workplace and doing everything a man can do but looking 1,000 percent like a lady.
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Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.
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A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
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If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.
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These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.
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My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
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I'm a unique person, as everyone is, but none of us has more of a right to existence or a right to specialness or uniqueness than anyone else.
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The experiment of the poem is mostly intuitive. I write the first draft, pulling in the various elements that interest me, in the hope that their being combined will lead to some kind of insight.
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A lot of people thought of me as a threat to Western civilization.
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People are always talking about originality; but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us; and this goes on to the end. And after all, what can we call our own, except energy, strength, and will? If I could give an account of all that I owe to great predecessors and contemporaries, there would be but a small balance in my favor.
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It's my job to accept my youth, to spread my story, to let people know who I am as an individual, because there's so many people who are blinded and think less of me because of my skin color.
