Jennifer Gilmore Quotes

The birth mother is placing the baby out of love. I still believe that. Well, the ones we've dealt with who were actually pregnant, anyway.

Jennifer Gilmore

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I was raised in Mississippi, in a family and a community that identified as black, and I have the stories and the experiences to go with it. One of my great-great grandfathers was killed by a gang of white Prohibition patrollers.

Jesmyn Ward

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Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.

John Major

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I wrote a lot of fiction, but it was just college stuff. It seems to me you have to be so confident in yourself to become a writer.

Robert Loomis

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There is something fundamentally unfair about a government that takes away so much of people's money, power, and personal control while telling them that life will be better as a result.

Steve Forbes

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I define my work as a feminist act and a political act because I'm black and a woman. You don't necessarily have to claim that, but the act of making art itself is a political and feminist act when you're a woman.

Mickalene Thomas

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Armed Forces Day on May 21, and the Memorial Day weekend that follows, is a time to honor, remember and recognize those who serve and have served our country, as well as those who have died in service. As we reflect, let's not forget the many sacrifices made at home as well in support of our men and women in uniform.

Chuck Norris

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My philosophy is, if you work as hard as you can, you give yourself as many opportunities as you can to be successful and lucky.

Bobby Lashley

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When I'm not performing? I'm looking for the next big thing.

Ashanti

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I worked in IT for about three years for a tiny firm with ten other people.

Allison Tolman

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Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.

Thucydides

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We should use every pillar of American power to destroy ISIS.

Todd Wilcox

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I don't want real life necessarily to be seen only as a context to heighten the deepness my work.

Tim Crouch

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