Khandi Alexander Quotes
I never saw a consistent through-line of employment for black actresses. I was like, 'How are they supporting themselves?'
Khandi Alexander
Quotes to Explore
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There is a wide, yawning black infinity. In every direction, the extension is endless; the sensation of depth is overwhelming. And the darkness is immortal. Where light exists, it is pure, blazing, fierce; but light exists almost nowhere, and the blackness itself is also pure and blazing and fierce.
Carl Sagan
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When I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat on my mother's hundred-pound, black-and-white-screen laptop. The story came about largely because I liked the way the word 'goat' looked on the page, but I decided then and there that I wanted to be a writer. That desire never changed.
Tea Obreht
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There is some group of Americans who are really, really curious to understand how we ended up at this point, where every week it seems like you can turn on your TV and see some sort of abuse being heaped on black people.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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I dug the idea that I was being perceived as the black sheep of my family, but for me, it was like, I was a rebel, and that to me was most important.
Larry Bishop
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In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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'Spin City' was a really wonderful time for me. I made friends for life on that show. I made friends with Richard Kind, Michael Boatman, Barry Bostwick, Sandy Chaplin. We're all close. It was a really wonderful time.
Alan Ruck
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Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
Socrates
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Le Pen is a petit bourgeois nationalist.
Pim Fortuyn
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I believe - I'm not a political expert, but I believe there is a broad consensus, a middle ground if you will, that Democrats and Republicans, business people and workers can agree on, to get this - the economy growing faster, getting people back to work.
Austan Goolsbee
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My family is not only not religious, but my parents are both - they're secularists. My father is actually an atheist and feels very strongly about it.
Elif Batuman
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I never saw a consistent through-line of employment for black actresses. I was like, 'How are they supporting themselves?'
Khandi Alexander