Born Quotes
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She wondered how soon after the first baby was born of the rape of a black woman by a white man did some slaver decide that light-skinned slaves were smarter and better by virtue of white blood? And how long after that had some black people decided to take advantage of that myth?
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It's weird, when I go back to San Francisco, the few times that I've done shows there since leaving, it still feels like I live there. It's very, very strange for me. That's where my daughter was born, at UCSF. I have this huge attachment to San Francisco. It's like a love affair.
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I was born in England, but then I lived in Calgary, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, India, Vancouver, London, Toronto, and now L.A.
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While I was an honorable man in her eyes, she did not love me. But the minute she understood what I was, when she breathed the true and foul odor of my soul, love was born in her – for she does love me! Well, well! There is nothing real, then, except evil.
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Most of the bio men on earth were born to women, so it's pretty ordinary! But I think because I had come from a matriarchy - my father died when I was young, and I only have a sister and a stepsister - when I told my mom and my sister that I was having a boy, they were both like, "That does not compute within our family relation!" It was like, "Girls only here!" Now that all seems very strange to me.
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We are all born worthy. Worthy of love, worthy of success.
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My mother was born in Wilmington, Delaware. She's a U.S. citizen, so I'm a U.S. citizen.
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I was born in New Jersey and lived there until I was about 10, so Jersey is in my roots.
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I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.
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A born king is a very rare being.
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Christians are made, not born.
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Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them.
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I was born in New York in 1904.
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Mum doesn't like it when I mention that Dad's a better cook than her. He was born in Spain and spent eight years in Portugal and is exceptional at lots of cuisines.
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So hand in hand they passed, the loveliest pair that ever since in love's embraces met -- Adam, the goodliest man of men since born his sons; the fairest of her daughters Eve.
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Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred.
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Born in a cellar... and living in a garret.
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I'm born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.
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I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this.
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Some people are just born to cook and talk.
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I was always the shame of the family - the one Yankee who was actually born in the North.
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I was born in 1928 and by 1931 the Depression was beginning to mount.
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Although I was born to famous parents, I know and feel the problems of ordinary citizens.
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My parents are both Belgian-born, and so am I, actually.
