Clementa C. Pinckney Quotes
We have a legacy to uphold: the people who died so that we could have the right to vote; the people who sacrificed so that we would one day realize the dream of a black president.Clementa C. Pinckney
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When I was travelling in Rajasthan people were waving hands, and it felt like I was visiting my own constituency.
Kamla Persad-Bissessar -
People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.
Sam Taylor-Wood -
When the women's movement began, it was a middle-class phenomenon. Certainly, black women had other stuff to think about in the '60s besides a women's movement. Working-class women were slow to get into it.
Gail Collins -
We saw very little of the real Jack Buck behind the microphone. He would touch people in ways that we will never know. Jack was much more than just an announcer.
Ozzie Smith -
I don't like getting people upset, so that's not my goal. But I like putting people in situations where how they respond says a lot about them.
Nathan Fielder -
People consider Black Star a great album, and I think it's a classic album. But the fact is, both me and Mos Def have made better albums since Black Star.
Talib Kweli Black Star
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I think it's important for people of colour to have similar opportunities to white people; that's what is most important.
Mahershala Ali -
I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
I believe that, as actors, we have a phenomenal platform to spread positivity and influence people in the same way.
Nargis Fakhri -
I was having a lot of people ask me to update 'The Shock Doctrine' and add a chapter about Trump.
Naomi Klein -
To me, the newspaper business was a way to learn about life and how things worked in the real world and how people spoke. You learn all the skills - you learn to listen, you learn to take notes - everything you use later as a novelist was valuable training in the newspaper world. But I always wanted to write novels.
Carl Hiaasen -
I have no child to inherit my properties. You, the people, are my only family, and to make you happy is the reason I do politics.
Park Geun-hye
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There were a number of people who helped me get there, and the one I always mention is Michael Byrne, the great master swordsman and brilliant stunt double.
Ian McDiarmid -
I wanted people to see me, to change their minds about me.
Fantasia Barrino -
You don't think it was because a white man wrote it, a black man wrote it, a green man wrote it. What - doesn't make a difference! Doesn't make a difference. I think he did a good job.
Cab Calloway -
When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end.
Eamon de Valera -
I'd learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the world I had to become so big, so strong that people and their hatred could never touch me.
Sammy Davis, Jr. -
Like most sensible people, you probably lost interest in modern art about the time that Julian Schnabel was painting broken pieces of the crockery that his wife had thrown at him for painting broken pieces of crockery instead of painting the bathroom and hall.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Family are the people that can hurt you the most.
Mahershala Ali -
As an immigrant, I learned by watching other people.
John Cho -
People bore me. Film people particularly bore me. I prefer talking to my trees
Kishore Kumar -
I was born in Massachusetts. I live in Stillwater. I went to school in Florida.
Peter Uihlein -
I've been a list maker for years, even before I was a musician. I was always writing things down and kept long lists of things that would make good album titles and things like that. I'm constantly thinking in terms of songwriting.
Buzz Osborne -
We have a legacy to uphold: the people who died so that we could have the right to vote; the people who sacrificed so that we would one day realize the dream of a black president.
Clementa C. Pinckney