Remember Quotes

As a child in the rural district of Penal I remember sharing meals from the same pot with neighbours of different racial, ethnic, social and economic backgrounds.

Kamla Persad-Bissessar
- Different
- Child
- Same
Fix me up with a mannequin, just remember I like blondes. I'll be the life of the party, even when I'm dead and gone.

Joe Diffie

Every time we're about to criticize someone for what we think they did wrong, let's first remember to thank them for the things they did right. And to mean it; to sincerely affirm them. Then, if there's still a problem that needs to be shared, it will come from a completely different energy -- and actually be heard!

Marianne Williamson
- Time
- Different
- Energy
Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future.

G. M. Trevelyan
- Real
- History
- True
It was rough being dark. I got heat from my own people more than anyone else. I remember going to my mom and saying, 'Why am I so black?' And she said, 'Because I'm black. You just gotta always work harder than the average bear.'

Bernie Mac
- People
- Work
- Why
I felt pretty good growing up. I didn't feel a lot of prejudice or racism. But I do remember, if there was going to be a movie or a television show with Asian characters, I would go out of my way to avoid them, because they portrayed all Asians as either ridiculously good or ridiculously bad; you know, the whole Charlie Chan-Fu Manchu thing.

David Henry Hwang
- Up
- Good
- Bad
I can remember in the late 1980s and early 1990s how many men with AIDS I saw everywhere in Key West. There were hospices and medical supply stores geared to people with AIDS. It seemed that every sick man who could afford it had headed for the warmth and the tranquillity and the gay-friendliness of the island.

Edmund White
- People
- Men
- Man
Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.