Constance Baker Motley Quotes

The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor.

Constance Baker Motley

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• Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Imagination
  • Never
  • Carry

• For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Free
  • Imagination
  • Someone

• I'm a Republican. I don't want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Up
  • Family
  • Want

• Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Important

• I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Never
  • Kid
  • Fame

• I was always telling my family I wanted to become an actress, and I did.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Family
  • Always
  • Become

• The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Poetry
  • Risk
  • Said

• I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Great
  • Understand
  • Flawed

• I consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Want
  • Write
  • Dialogue

• I spent years commuting into London when I was working as a temp, and I hated the monotony of it.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Years
  • Working
  • London

• The man who practises unselfishness, who is genuinely interested in the welfare of others, who feels it a privilege to have the power to do a fellow-creature a kindness - even though polished manners and a gracious presence may be absent - will be an elevating influence wherever he goes.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • May
  • Power
  • Man

• When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Best
  • Actor
  • Go

• Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

  

  Harold Coffin
  • Souls
  • Corporations
  • Treason

• Sometimes I see through things when people are talking. I'm really sensitive to other people, so I can tell if somebody's putting on a front.

  

  Banks
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • I Can

• The central premise behind Oslo was that if Arafat were given enough legitimacy, territory, weapons and money, he would use his power to fight terror and make peace with Israel.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Money
  • Power
  • Peace

• I'm going to prove to the fans, going to prove to my teammates, that I can be a better defensive player, offensive player, to win games.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Player
  • Better
  • Win

• I think, no matter what, when you're writing songs, most people write about the extremes of their experiences.

  

  K. Flay
  • People
  • Writing
  • Think

• Living in Cape Breton, it's really all about fiddle music, so it's not like there were other instruments out there that tempted me and it was like I had to decide which one. It was automatically fiddle, because it's the predominant instrument in Cape Breton Island.

  

  Natalie MacMaster
  • Music
  • Living
  • Instruments

• Trying to conceal the fact that I was a gay, effeminate, hyperactive, adopted child with a serious lisp in southern Louisiana would have been like trying to hide Dolly Parton in a string bikini!

  

  Kevyn Aucoin
  • Trying
  • Serious
  • Gay

• I'm 60, and I did 60-year-old women songs. I'm not trying to be the Hip-Hop Queen, although I am the original Hip Hop Queen.

  

  Patti LaBelle
  • Women
  • Trying

• In the scattered settlements of this Diocese, schools and Churches are of necessity for many years few in number, and multitudes of both sexes are growing up in great ignorance.

  

  John Strachan
  • Up
  • Great
  • Growing

• When we hold a photo negative up to the light all objects are reversed. Black is white, white is black. Moreover, the character lines of any face in the picture are not clear. Once placed into the developing solution, what photographers call "the latent image" is revealed in the print-darkness is turned to light; and, lo, we have a beautiful picture.

  

  Catherine Marshall
  • Character
  • Beautiful
  • Black

• Even today, when the Obama administration has liberalized travel to Cuba - and failed to reverse that liberalization when Alan Gross was imprisoned - there are limits.

  

  Elliott Abrams
  • Today
  • Travel

• The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor.

  

  Constance Baker Motley
  • Black