Constance Baker Motley Quotes

The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina.

Constance Baker Motley

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• Every ghetto you go to, Latinos and blacks are the two people that are together. We don't look at each other in any different way, like 'He's black; I'm Latino.' I look at us as one.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Different
  • Together

• College is part of the American dream. It shouldn't be part of a financial nightmare for families.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • American
  • Dream
  • College

• I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Writing
  • Art
  • College

• When I was in college at Amherst, my father asked me a favor: to take one course in economics. I loved it - for the challenge of its mysteries.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Father
  • College
  • Challenge

• College was where I got to actually experience the difference between black and white.

  

  Ilyasah Shabazz
  • Experience
  • Black
  • College

• In college, I wanted to be a child psychologist. Acting was just something on the side to make money. And it was fun.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Money
  • Fun
  • College

• When I was growing up, I wasn't in bands, and had really no intention of ever doing music. I went out to California for college, and kind of on a whim started making music really as a joke, and over the course of the next five years started playing a lot of shows, and music became this really integral part of my identity.

  

  K. Flay
  • Up
  • Music
  • Growing

• I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • School
  • Happy
  • College

• I got along with people very well at every job I had, people liked me and I liked them and I loved being on my feet.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • People
  • Job
  • Me

• Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn't white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Men
  • Black

• All these police treating our people wrong, man. Black lives matter, but we got fans of all different colors, so all lives matter.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • People
  • Different
  • Man

• 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
  • Long
  • Mother
  • Black

• My clothes are predominately black and my home is predominantly white.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Home
  • Black
  • Clothes

• I was very good until I left home to go to a little college in West Virginia, and then I started to break some rules.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Good
  • Home
  • College

• Black is not a color.

  

  Edouard Manet
  • Black
  • Color

• When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because they had nowhere else to go.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Black
  • Years
  • Baseball

• Our job as friends, mentors, parents, and writing coaches is not to write anyone's college essay. That's cheating. Plus, it sends a discouraging message to the teenager that he or she can't be trusted with this important assignment. Trust the student to write the essay, but verify that it gets done. Gentle editing and proofreading are allowed.

  

  Kate Klise
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Done

• The only crime I'm guilty of is being a young black woman.

  

  Foxy Brown
  • Black
  • Woman
  • Guilty

• But he always licked to get visitors alone in the billiard room and tell them stories about a mysterious lady, a foreign royalty, with whom he had driven about London. 'A devilish temper she had,' he would say. 'But she was a dem fine woman, sir, a dem fine woman.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • She
  • Alone
  • Mysterious

• The height of success is when you break your business, that is what I say! Just when you think things are really, really going well, that's the time to change.

  

  Edward Zander
  • Time
  • Business
  • Success

• There seems to be a peculiar kind of clamor for comics. And I'm not sure how much a part of reality that is. I think partly it's based on some idea that comics are what everybody wants to read - and I don't think that's the case.

  

  Chris Ware
  • Reality

• I encourage my fans to get involved, whether it's just educating yourself on premature birth, or you can donate or volunteer.

  

  Ally Brooke Fifth Harmony
  • Volunteer

• I did Nancy Sinatra in Vegas a number of times, and then the Sinatra family, when we did Frankie and the Muppets. Big show in Vegas.

  

  Hal Blaine
  • Family
  • Numbers
  • Vegas

• The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina.

  

  Constance Baker Motley
  • Black
  • College