Roger Wilkins Quotes

In the days of segregation, when blacks were limited to certain neighborhoods, you could look around the black community and identify who the leaders were.

Roger Wilkins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: activist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 25, 1932 - March 26, 2017

Topics

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The money doesn't buy me, and it never will.

Jimmy Gomez

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The economics of setting up a new restaurant are scary in good times and terrifying in bad ones.

John Lanchester

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I always wanted to be a basketball player.

Ronnie James Dio

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Many of the most eloquent people I have ever met work in lab coats every day.

Michael Specter

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From 7 in the morning to 11 at night, I was reading. I don't think one can find any other time in one's life to be left alone so much to read in peace like that.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

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I think that turning on the charm without being fake is really important.

Miley Cyrus

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Why would you choose being bitter over choosing to make music? Being bitter is gross. It doesn't amount to anything.

Josh Homme

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A lot of the things I loved the most growing up were, on the surface, kind of challenging or impenetrable. I loved Andy Kaufman, and half his shows, people would walk out in a rage. I love punk rock, which is notoriously music that doesn't always sound very inviting or appealing but, I think, unquestionably has the most heart, the most integrity.

Chris Gethard

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The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images.

Christopher Lasch

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I'm really not a fascist. Everyone wears what they feel great in, or comfortable with. It's a beautiful day, you have an armless shirt: it goes with flip-flops.

Christian Louboutin

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With the wacky jokes that we do on 'Great News,' you do overall still want to be coming from a place of truth with your character because, otherwise, it's just off the walls.

Briga Heelan

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So I built my entire career in the United States and that's why it feels like I'm an American actor.

Anthony LaPaglia

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