Aja Naomi King Quotes
I use Pureology Shampoo and Conditioner, and after shampooing, I'll put the conditioner on, go watch a movie, and wash it out later. When you have black girl hair, once we wash, we've gotta do the whole press and get in the edges and everything. That's a lot of heat to go back to straight on a daily basis.
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My hair is not really white; it's kind of grayish, and I don't like the color. So I make it totally white with Klorane dry shampoo. That is the best thing to do because my hair is always clean.
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In Men in Black, it was a very small character, no pun intended.
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Every little girl looks up to her mom so much - that's your first hero.
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I'm such a girl because all the guys go for cars because of their engines or something like that. I like the colour and the design.
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I've been writing about my boyhood, when I was a little kid back on my grandfather's farm where we didn't know about black widow spiders or all that stuff. But writing about that is so easy.
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I'm a textbook definition of that perfectionist girl who has huge expectations of herself.
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I fell in love with the whole process of making a movie. I loved the sets. I loved watching the actors and the crew.
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I thought our community should have a deep dialogue to make black America better. I believe if we make black America better, we make all of America better.
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I love the idea of making a movie for kids but it's got to be that, with my take on it.
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The daily quota I've set for myself is 500 words or approximately a page and a half double-spaced. Which isn't much, except that I'm extremely slow, extremely meticulous. 'Le mot juste' haunts me. On a good day, I will finally secrete the 500th word at about 5 o'clock, and I'll reward myself by going to Housing Works Bookstore to read.
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There was this girl who went to my school, and she did a Nikki Giovanni poem, 'Ego Tripping,' and it was just different from everyone else's. It wasn't flat recitation. It had an energy and a life to it. And it made me sit up in my seat, and my eyes got wide, and I really felt inside myself, 'She's making me feel things. I want to do that.'
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Sometimes I think I am still that 5-year-old girl playing with her dogs in the yard. That's how I see myself.
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When you make a movie independently, you raise the money beforehand, and then you make the movie kind of by yourself.
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North Korea faded to black in the early 1990s. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, which had propped up its old Communist ally with cheap fuel oil, North Korea's creakily inefficient economy collapsed. Power stations rusted into ruin.
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The more I mistreat my hair, the stronger it grows back. I think it must be determined to survive.
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I want to make my own movie.
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The pilots I did test for, I was the only black actor testing against white actors for parts that were written white.
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Poitier opened the doors to so many artists, not just black artists. There is a line that goes from black to Latin to Asian with regards to roles.
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The sexiest thing in the entire world is being really smart. And being thoughtful and being generous. Everything else is crap. I promise you. It's just crap that people try to sell to you to make you feel like less. So don't buy it. Be smart. Be thoughtful and be generous.
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It's the worst noise in the world: me analyzing the reasons for making a podcast about U2.
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Sometimes I wonder if the world is too interesting and too boring at the same time.
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I went to Moscow and met some slightly powerful and scary people.
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I use Pureology Shampoo and Conditioner, and after shampooing, I'll put the conditioner on, go watch a movie, and wash it out later. When you have black girl hair, once we wash, we've gotta do the whole press and get in the edges and everything. That's a lot of heat to go back to straight on a daily basis.
