Colson Whitehead Quotes
Growing up as a product of the black civil-rights movement, I had a lot of different models for black weirdness, whether it's Richard Pryor or James Baldwin or Jimmy Walker.
Colson Whitehead
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Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe.
Earl Blumenauer
I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here. And I want to walk my daughter down the aisle and give her away to somebody some day. I want to make sure I am still here to make sure my two young sons become men.
Magic Johnson
I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
Oleg Cassini
I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
Sally Mann
I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.
Otto Preminger
People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.
Kate Upton
Food is a very sensitive subject for so many people.
Suzy Amis
Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.
Martin Scorsese
I try to just be the person I am, with a lot of sensitivity to the genre in which I'm playing.
Edgar Meyer
The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.
Mary Augusta Ward
I think there's a sort of, you know, very thin way of reading this that says, well, Barack Obama is biracial thus that gives him some understanding of both white America and black America, but that's not really it.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Growing up as a product of the black civil-rights movement, I had a lot of different models for black weirdness, whether it's Richard Pryor or James Baldwin or Jimmy Walker.
Colson Whitehead
