Claudia Rankine Quotes
The American imagination has never been able to fully recover from its white-supremacist beginnings.
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We went from journalism, in newspapers that gets heavily edited, to blogs, where you can express your opinions, to tweeting, where you can say anything, and it gets repeated and becomes fact when it isn't. It's something the entire world is going to have to come to grips with.
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The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.
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There's a big link between trains and film. One of the first filmed objects was a train. The clickety-clack of the projector and the clickety-clack of the train are similar. There is the idea of the voyage - every voyage is a story. I wonder if film would have been invented without the train.
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Every time you load a webpage is a HTTP request. That's a lot of HTTP requests. If you are earning bitcoin on every HTTP request, that could be a lot of earned bitcoins.
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The whole community of people with disabilities was alive, politically alive. I give Justin Dart credit for that. He traveled to every state in the country. He really made people with disabilities understand that they had some political power.
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I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.
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Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
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The beautiful thing is that ageism just doesn't exist on 'EastEnders.' The show saved me.
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Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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I hate thinking about clothes. I hate shopping.
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I have this data bank garbage can in the back of my head that is an emotional collection of events that have occurred in my life.
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I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.
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I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.
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If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.
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If you are going to make a change, don't go halfway. Make it with conviction and stick with your new idea. Ignore the scoffers. Remember, it is a law of nature that if something is different you're going to be taunted, jeered, and told the world is flat. Let the doubters fall off the edge.
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The greatest desire of my heart was for the Lord to manifest His will concerning me.
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He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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As women, we get the message about how to be a good girl - how to be a good, pretty girl - from such an early age. Then, at the same time, we're told that well-behaved girls won't change the world or ever make a splash.
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The Porsche was just a vehicle to get to another place. I used it to change people's perceptions of me. I had grown up really middle class. USC was filled with elitists, richies who would go skiing every weekend. So I pretended like I was part of that world - to be accepted.
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Aretha Franklin does not like me.
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For girls growing up, sometimes I think they get the wrong idea for what women should look like.
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The American imagination has never been able to fully recover from its white-supremacist beginnings.
