Toni Morrison Quotes

She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.

Toni Morrison

Recitation: by Male by Female

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FriendshipGoodFriendWomanManMe

All leaders, male or female, innately possess feminine qualities like empathy, candor and vulnerability - the difference lies in which leaders choose to suppress those qualities, and which choose to leverage them as strengths.

John Gerzema

EmpathyChooseVulnerabilityLeverage

Just as women are afraid of receiving, men are afraid of giving.

John Gray

WomenMenGivingAfraidWomen Are

If you live in a democracy, it's very tiring to be always surrounded by great and high abstract generalisations which are, in fact, the most banal and naive cliches dug out of second-rate movements of the late 19th century.

John Ralston Saul

LiveGreatDemocracyYouLateNaive

The office has oversight of people who do analysis and oversight of people who do operations, but it is not charged with doing either. That is an important point to make. Those functions are performed by the CIA, DIA and other agencies.

Stephen Cambone

PeopleDoingImportantOfficePoint

The language of violence that many whites use to describe anti-racist endeavors is not without significance, as it is another example of how white fragility distorts reality.

Robin DiAngelo

RealityLanguageViolenceWhiteHow

The anguish in London is a vivid reminder of why we cannot relent in taking the steps necessary to defend our homeland from the present terrorist threat.

Mike Pence

PresentWhyLondonDefendSteps

There were times in my career when I would try to write songs like Bob Dylan... Artists get hooked up in that. To be a follower, you lose.

Del Shannon

YouLoseCareerTryWriteUp

The new idea for me now is creativity. I like to express myself.

Christina Milian

MyselfCreativityMeNewNowIdea

Words have a life of their own. There is no telling what they will do. Within a matter of days, they can even turn turtle and mean the opposite.

Craig Brown

LifeWordsTurtleWillMatterMean

At the beginning of every semester, I ask my graduate students whether there is something I should read that will help me understand their work.

Alice McDermott

WorkBeginningMeHelpUnderstand

My favorite films are the ones that I walk away from and I know I saw a story.

Shane Carruth

WalkStoryKnowAwaySawFavorite

I mean, the media and bloggers may say otherwise, but in reality I have a lot of fans because I'm the only celebrity that actually takes time out to call them and talk to them. I don't think a lot of celebrities do that.

Tila Tequila

TimeThinkRealityMediaSayTalk

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