Erykah Badu (Erica Abi Wrigh) Quotes
My mom was the Diana Ross of our clan. She was always up-to-date, and always knew what to do and what not to do in a fashion sense.Erykah Badu
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The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
While it may be true that the UAE has been an ally since the September 11, 2001, attacks, the American people know it has also harbored and aided some of the al Qaeda agents who were involved in that attack.
Bart Gordon -
I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and to ensure I am being mooted by people who know the Supreme Court well and are coming to the case fresh.
Patricia Millett -
Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.
Ted Rall -
May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
Zebulon Pike -
The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
Barbara Deming -
The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.
Manly Hall -
When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather or navy donkey jackets for men. I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months.
Tariq Ali -
Your goal in an online dating profile and in your first message to somebody is to strike up a conversation.
Sam Yagan -
I'm cool with myself. If I can't have the body of Angie Bassett, so be it.
Queen Latifah -
Families are families. We've all got them, more or less, and we all know what it's like to be bullied by another generation.
Tamsin Greig
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The potential for regional conflict in the absence of an internationally active America is real.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on T.V.
Samantha Bond -
I am not a sun person at all. I think it's a cancerous poison and I don't want it touching me.
Rachel Kushner -
Rock Hudson wasn't my type. He's a great guy and had a great sense of humor.
Tab Hunter -
Remember how small the world was before I came along? I brought it all to life: I moved the whole world onto a 20-foot screen.
D. W. Griffith -
In my 20s I was going round seeing agents who were patronising because I was fat and a girl, which was a double whammy. I knew what it was to feel out-of-the-loop.
Victoria Wood
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Above all, the fans of the Cleveland Cavaliers, as well as the entire franchise, deserve and need our players and coaches to dig deep within themselves.
Dan Gilbert -
The fact that I could sing in a way that might not be right for RADA but is right for me was a brand-new concept.
Lia Ices -
About two-thirds of bachelor's degree holders borrow to go to school, and on average they're graduating with more than $26,000 in debt.
Arne Duncan -
Love is the world's infinite mutability; lies, hatred, murder even, are all knit up in it; it is the inevitable blossoming of its opposites, a magnificent rose smelling faintly of blood.
Tony Kushner -
I have high heels in my bags if I need them for a shoot. But I like sneakers. I like being comfortable. I like to sit on the floor with my team and work. I don't like to sit in fancy chairs. It's really important to the culture of my company that people understand who they're working for.
Bobbi Brown -
My mom was the Diana Ross of our clan. She was always up-to-date, and always knew what to do and what not to do in a fashion sense.
Erykah Badu