Constance Baker Motley Quotes
In high school, I discovered myself. I was interested in race relations and the legal profession. I read about Lincoln and that he believed the law to be the most difficult of professions.
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I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.
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Feminism is dead. The movement is absolutely dead. The women's movement tried to suppress dissident voices for way too long. There's no room for dissent.
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We as women have a voice and we are decision makers in what film to see. We always support our boyfriends and husbands by going to see the male dominated films, but we don't compel them to see films with female casts.
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I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
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If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone's notebook. A record. Of a place, beauty, difficulty. A familiar daily struggle.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening territory.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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Whether people be of high or low birth, rich or poor, old or young, enlightened or confused, they are all alike in that they will one day die.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
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Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.
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The older I get, the less I know. By that I mean the less I am sure of. I view people with strong opinions on the big stuff with distrust. I don't think we should have certain certainties on faith and politics; I think we should be open-minded.
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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.
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I'm part of a community that holds each other up, and it's been great to be held up too.
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I feel like I've never been in a film that people have liked before.
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We're homebodies. I've gotten to see my kids' first steps, first smiles, first words. Every day is a weekend.
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Some part of life – perhaps the most important part – must be left to the spontaneous action of individual impulse, for where all is system there will be mental and spiritual death.
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Sometimes I get frustrated with my own self because I'm such a perfectionist.
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In high school, I discovered myself. I was interested in race relations and the legal profession. I read about Lincoln and that he believed the law to be the most difficult of professions.
