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John Ridley Quotes

From the moment we were first dumped in Jamestown and had our teeth checked before getting sold off and later considered three-fifths of a human being, an abundance of 'likability' hasn't been something blacks have had to stockpile. Instead, it's been a centuries-long battle for respectability.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: 1965

Topics

Moment Battle Abundance Teeth First

To live your life well, and have respect for what came before or after - there's a strong respect for that in African culture.

Anna Deavere Smith

Life Live Respect Culture Strong

Great people have great values and great ethics.

Jeffrey Gitomer

Great Ethics People Values

During the 1980s, international interest in the Nicaraguan war was intense. No conflict since the Spanish civil war had provoked such passion around the world. It was a classic good-versus-evil war.

Passion War Conflict World Classic

Some people, if you eat a carrot, you're killing it.

People You Some People Eat Carrot

If you want to love others, I think you should love yourself first.

Love Yourself Love Yourself Think

Sometimes I have a tough time getting along with myself. When I was a child, I needed a lot of attention... and I don't have a small ego. For me, appearing on a stage or presenting a cake is the same thing. You need a crowd around you to do it.

Time Myself Child Cake Me Small

I always performed as a kid to make my family laugh and was more concerned with making kids at school laugh than I was about the lessons.

Family School Laugh More Kid Always

If you're on a bus and going down a snowy mountain like in Tahoe, and the bus loses its brakes, where do you want to be sitting? Immediately, you all think, 'In the back.' But in the front would be the correct answer. As a quarterback, you want to take control of it.

Mountain Control Think You Down Bus

You've got to give more than you take.

Christopher Reeve

You More Take Got Give Than

My mom took me to a taekwondo class, and I fell in love. I was seven years old.

Love Me Mom Class Old Years

We don't have some message from God that gives us a list of what's good and what's not good. Obviously, we have to make our own flawed judgments about each thing.

Good God Own Us Message Some

In the late 1980s, a new revolt broke out, this time led by the fundamentalist FIS (Islamic Salvation Front). Many of its leaders were the kind of young Algerians who joined the struggle against the French occupiers in the 1950s.

Time Struggle Late New Young Kind

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