Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Quotes

It's not about supplication, it's about power. It's not about asking, it's about demanding. It's not about convincing those who are currently in power, it's about changing the very face of power itself.

Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

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• Asking
• Convincing
• Supplication

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• HB2 discriminates against fellow citizens because of who they are. This law directly challenges the legitimacy of the identity of transgender persons and then compels them to deny it every time they use a public restroom.

  

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• There's nothing better than achieving your goals, whatever they might be.

  

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• You have to be aware. Like, I'm not going to do any downhill skiing. It looks like a whole lot of fun, but I'm not going to risk breaking a leg. I want to be dancing the way I'm dancing now for 30 more years.

  

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• Wish there was something that I could say or do, I can resist anything but the temptation from you. But I'd rather walk alone than chase you around, I'd rather fall myself then let you drag me on down.

  

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• If I didn't have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.

  

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• All these years I've been feeling like I was growing into myself. Finally, I feel grown.

  

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• Just do it. Get it down on the page. Work hard. And then let go. Ask yourself why you want to write. You have to be clear about that.

  

  Yann Martel
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• The amount of work that TV writers and executives do is incredibly hard. I'm shocked that these people will hand in three outlines and two scripts, and everybody has to read them and give notes on all of them, even the writers.

  

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• The geek of the Earth are a tribe and they are mighty.

  

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• This was how the modern working girl behaved. She didn’t hide her femininity or apologize for it, as they did in the old days. She flaunted it and, having been given more than any woman before her, demanded even more than that.

  

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  • She
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  • Writing
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• People who want to write either do it or they don't. At last I began to say that my most important talent - or habit - was persistence. Without it, I would have given up writing long before I finished my first novel. It's amazing what we can do if we simply refuse to give up.

  

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• It's not about supplication, it's about power. It's not about asking, it's about demanding. It's not about convincing those who are currently in power, it's about changing the very face of power itself.

  

  Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
  • Inspiring
  • Asking
  • Convincing