Jason Reynolds Quotes

Hip-hop saved me. It gave me permission to use language in a certain way. It validated my community and my friends. It gave our slang a certain elegance.

Jason Reynolds

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 6, 1983

Topics

CommunityMeLanguageEleganceWay

I won't lie - when you're first bringing out music and you want people to notice, you probably overdo it, especially as a girl.

Jessie J

MusicGirlLiePeopleYouWant

My parents have a wonderful marriage, but they have been together since my mother was 12, married when they were just teenagers and are barely ever separated. They even work together. As a result, I have always thought of marriage as involving the loss of a certain amount of autonomy.

Jessica Valenti

WorkMarriageMotherTogetherLoss

One of the greatest gifts we can give people is the hope that their death is nothing to fear - you know, not that it has no fear in it, but the promise of scripture is that God will lead us through the valley of the shadow of death.

Max Lucado

FearGodHopeDeathShadowPeople

Technology can be our best friend, and technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives. It interrupts our own story, interrupts our ability to have a thought or a daydream, to imagine something wonderful, because we're too busy bridging the walk from the cafeteria back to the office on the cell phone.

Steven Spielberg

FriendTechnologyBestWalkBusy

I've been taught by everyone I've ever worked with.

Tom Douglas

EveryoneBeenTaughtEverWorked

Donors need to know what their money is being used for.

Michel Martelly

MoneyKnowNeedUsedBeingDonors

Science fiction without the science just becomes, you know, sword and sorcery, basically stories about heroism and not much more.

Michio Kaku

ScienceYouSwordKnowMoreHeroism

Man, the '80s were pretty wacky. You had some stuff that was just so rad and some stuff that was just so wrong.

Lucas Till

ManYouWrongPrettyWackyStuff

If you didn't know who I was, if I was to walk out on the street without people knowing who I am, you'd think I'm an accountant or a lawyer.

Christopher Guest

WalkI AmPeopleLawyerThinkYou

Now I believe that people need to understand what's happening in my campaign, and they're going to get three or four snapshots of that, with plenty of time before the first disclosure happens in June.

Craig Benson

TimePeopleBelieveThreeUnderstand

For a time I didn't want to answer any questions about Queen. I'd like to be viewed as something alive and relevant, not some fossil.

Brian May

TimeQueenQuestionsAliveWant

I wake up most days with a vague feeling of doom - 'Dear God. Here I am again.' Then, when I read about politicians in the newspaper, the vengefulness starts. By mid-morning, the anxiety is kicking in.

Bruce Robinson

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