Aja Naomi King Quotes
Not to say there's not good TV out there, but I think TV is better when it accurately reflects the world as it is.
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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.
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Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.
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I find it hard to be labelled in this new 'super-rich' category because we all grew up with very little. The idea that 'to get rich is glorious' is really a new phenomenon. I certainly didn't grow up like that.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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I don't really care that much about eating. But I like impressing people with how good a cook I am. So I will cook. I'm an excellent cook. Not many people know that about me.
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I am the father of twin sons that were born in Philadelphia at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1983. They were 13 weeks premature. Gerry weighed 1 pound 14 ounces, and Zachary 1 pound 11 ounces. They were the first male twins to ever survive at Pennsylvania Hospital.
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I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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All my life I have fought corruption.
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Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.
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Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
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I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.
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It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV.
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Our atheism family tradition is traced to a - I don't know if it was great-great or a great-great-great grandmother who was a poor Irish-American woman in the 1880s in western Montana.
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Humor can inform and break down stigma, which is a huge issue in the military.
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Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.
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I pride myself on being courteous to people, and trying to fashion good relations.
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Sometimes, an afternoon spent in bed with someone can be the most important thing in the universe.
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All I can do is try to create my own brand and have people appreciate me for that.
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Also our fellow competitors, who are indeed the people just mentioned - we do not compete with men who lived a hundred centuries ago, or those yet not born, or the dead, or those who dwell near the Pillars of Hercules, or those whom, in our opinion or that of others, we take to be far below us or far above us. So too we compete with those who follow the same ends as ourselves; we compete with our rivals in sport or in love, and generally with those who are after the same things; and it is therefore these whom we are bound to envy beyond all others. Hence the saying.
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Confession is probably the most neglected area of personal prayer.
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Not to say there's not good TV out there, but I think TV is better when it accurately reflects the world as it is.
