Kevin Young Quotes
Blackface remains exoticist and offensive as a practice, not just because of its long tradition of being used to mock black selfhood, sexuality, and speech but because of its assertion that black people are merely white people sullied by dark skin.Kevin Young
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By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
Zach Woods -
America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.
e. e. cummings -
I didn't have a long-term plan or goal. If there would have been a road map showing me the way to my dreams becoming reality, I might have given it a second thought.
Haley Bennett -
Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
Imre Lakatos -
Reverence is fatal to literature.
E. M. Forster -
Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
Ramsey Clark
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
Adam D'Angelo -
People do not lack strength; they lack will.
Victor Hugo -
In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.
Carine Roitfeld -
I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
M. F. Husain -
I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
Daniel Bryan -
If you look at weak democracies, the oligarchies that have taken undue control of them always seek to tamper with the vote. It is important for oligarchs to have elections to give their guy a veneer of legitimacy - and important for the vote always to turn out 'their way.'
Naomi Wolf
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There's something really fun about being scared, and I guess that was at least part of why I wanted to film certain scenes from my new book, 'Skeleton Creek.'
Patrick Carman -
When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.
Oprah Winfrey -
But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.
Jack Kingston -
The first thing I do when I get to any town is find a gym and a breakfast place, because I love breakfast.
Becky Lynch -
Nancy Lopez has always been a role model of mine... so to have the opportunity to play for her and spend time with her has been amazing.
Natalie Gulbis -
You have to open up on stage.
Karen O
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I think I'm brave because I've made decisions based - I hope not entirely selfishly - on what I think is right for me to do next.
Maeve Binchy -
Acting is a life of rejection.
Lauren Bacall -
But the thing we do know is whatever it costs to save and protect American lives in this conflict, we're going to spend.
Saxby Chambliss -
Most of us are animal lovers. We insist that we love all animals equally - the hamster, the weasel, and the zebra - but if pressed, we will admit to being either a cat person or a dog person.
Nicole Hollander -
Until Lee Elder, the only blacks at the Masters were caddies or waiters. To ask a black man what he feels about the traditions of the Masters is like asking him how he feels about his forefathers who were slaves.
Calvin Peete -
Blackface remains exoticist and offensive as a practice, not just because of its long tradition of being used to mock black selfhood, sexuality, and speech but because of its assertion that black people are merely white people sullied by dark skin.
Kevin Young