Shirley Chisholm Quotes

I want history to remember me... not as the first black woman to have made a bid for the presidency of the United States, but as a black woman who lived in the 20th century and who dared to be herself. I want to be remembered as a catalyst for change in America.

Shirley Chisholm

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: politician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 30, 1924 - January 1, 2005

Topics

ChangeHistoryWomanMeBlackWant

What other people think about me is not my business.

Michael J. Fox

BusinessPeopleMeThinkAbout

I'm not an educated woman. What am I gonna do for the rest of my life? I'm an athlete... And now I have absolutely nothing.

Tonya Harding

LifeWomanRestMy LifeNowNothing

Nothing in baseball can bring me down to the level where I was growing up in Pine Bluff, crying and broke. This is fun for me. Whenever you see me slumping, nah, I don't get upset; I'm all right.

Torii Hunter

BaseballFunMeGrowing UpYouDown

I came here when I was almost 22. I'm perfectly bilingual, but I'm never going to sound like Sandra Bullock.

Roselyn Sanchez

NeverSoundHereGoingAlmostLike

I have a completely addictive personality. Diet Coke is my last - God, I know people counting days off Diet Coke; I'm such a Diet Cokehead. Now I won't let myself buy it.

Mary Karr

GodMyselfPersonalityPeopleDiet

Broadband eliminates so many barriers to entry for so many different people that it's actually become a barrier to entry in and of itself if you're not getting online on a regular basis.

Michael K. Powell

PeopleYouBecomeBarriersDifferent

I can't help it. I want to be a good Catholic, but I'm a hedonist.

Chris Farley

GoodHelpWantCatholic

From Drew Barrymore to Robert Downey Jr., there's a long list of people who have faced their troubles, wildly overcome them, and succeeded.

Chris Pine

PeopleLongOvercomeWhoTroubles

Experience shows that those people who were selected to be a head coach in the NFL met with more success if they had had head-coaching experience.

Bob McNair

SuccessExperiencePeopleMoreCoach

We need to help people of all circumstance overcome the things in their life.

Sheryl Sandberg

LifePeopleHelpOvercomeNeed

As it happens, Chicago is the nation's leader in municipal privatization efforts. That's right: The city that conservatives portray as the citadel of the power-grabbing, government-growing left has been selling itself off in pieces for years. It signed a 99-year lease for the Chicago Skyway, a toll road in the city's South Side, back in 2005.

Thomas Frank

LeaderCityRoadBackSellingRight

We should be forced to give so many exemptions and concessions (inevitably to the benefit of high spending authorities in Inner London) that the flat-rate poll tax would rapidly become a surrogate income tax.

Nigel Lawson

TaxLondonBecomeIncome TaxHigh

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