Khoudia Diop Quotes
My very first account was @BlackBarbie, which is what my friends called me growing up. Then I thought, 'You can either call yourself that, or you can find something that will matter to dark-skinned girls.' So I came up with @melaniin.goddess.
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Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience.
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All I came to Los Angeles with was a dream. No one from my family ever left Ohio.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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French 'Vogue' was always a photographer's magazine.
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Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.
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The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
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France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.
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There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
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In December 2004, I travelled on the road from Uzbekistan across the Oxus River on which the first Soviet convoys had rolled into Afghanistan 25 years before.
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Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.
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I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.
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I really, really love Daniel Craig as Bond.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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I was pretty taken with Patti Smith, she was my heroine.
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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
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I think it's the height of patriotism to continue to exercise your right as a citizen and to hold your government to account. Isn't that what the very essence of democracy is about?
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I find that you learn from others. It's very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way and watching other people act.
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Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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I don't pretend that I can imagine myself as a Palestinian.
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People are hungry for someone who is real. They are hungry for something that is not the same plastic nonsense that has cause us to have such little respect for our political process and our political officials.
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I never faked anything. I never played the Disney game of smiling and being a princess and then suddenly having a hard time, saying, 'That isn't who I really am.'
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I wanted to be a witch when I was a kid. I was obsessed with witchcraft. At school, me and my two friends had these spell books; I always wanted a more magical reality. I had a little shrine at home and I did a spell to try and make the boy in the other class fall in love with me.
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My very first account was @BlackBarbie, which is what my friends called me growing up. Then I thought, 'You can either call yourself that, or you can find something that will matter to dark-skinned girls.' So I came up with @melaniin.goddess.
