Octavia E. Butler Quotes
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When I was a teenager, I learned to play the trumpet. Music became my passion.
Edmund Phelps
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I think we're a deeper team, a better team, we still have work to do... nothing is guaranteed, but hopefully we got the mentality to play on the road, and we're starting to get our home thing back in order now-if we can do that we'll be just fine.
Karl Malone
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I am a sufferer of endometriosis. I didn't want any young women to go through what I went through. I thought that people should know about it.
Padma Lakshmi
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I love America the way I love my family - I was born into it. And there's no escape out of it.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.
Ornette Coleman
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I didn't know 'Homeland' was going to be 'Homeland.' I just did it because it was a terrific script, and they pitched me the story line, and I was like, 'Huh, that's interesting.'
Damian Lewis
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Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not.
Jerry Saltz
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I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.
Tom Stoppard
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The ancient Egyptians were Negroes. The moral fruit of their civilization is to be counted among the assets of the Black world.
Cheikh Anta Diop
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I can never understand why I should eat at one or sleep at eleven, if it is, as it often is, my one and my eleven and nobody else's. For, as between the clock and me alone, one and eleven and all other o'clocks are mine and I am not theirs. But I have known men and women living in hotels who would interrupt a sunset to go to dine, or wave away the stars in their courses to go to sleep, merely because the hour had struck.
Zona Gale
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Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.
Octavia E. Butler