Quotes 41 till 60 of 67.
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Not knowing it was hard; knowing it was harder.
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Race is the least reliable information you can have about someone. It's real information, but it tells you next to nothing.
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Racism will disappear when it's no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it'll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader.
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Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don't feel safe.
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The body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the body can handle it, not after 40, when the income can handle it.
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The difference between that which is humane and that which is patriotic is a vital difference.
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The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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The hardest achievement in acting - in my opinion, anyway - is nailing a role that absolutely nobody else could have played. Pacino owned Michael Corleone... but DeNiro could have owned it as well. Who else, though, but Val Kilmer could have nailed Jim Morrison? Does anyone besides Will Ferrell pull off Ron Burgundy?
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The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.
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There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.
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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race - scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it has a social function, racism.
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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
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There is really nothing more to say except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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There's a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises.... If you write for life, you'll work hard; you'll do what's honest, not what pays.
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They claim everyone was born, but I don't recall it. Maybe I was having one of my blackouts.
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To me, Doors fans were always the 16-year-old idiots at parties, getting stoned, and talking about how Morrison's lyrics were like poetry... like that was a deep thought.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
Source: The Bluest Eye (2014) 138
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