Jason Reynolds Quotes

All the academy will tell you that the language that is familiar to you is not appropriate. and that's not to say that there shouldn't be a standard, but when I come to school with my friends' language, my grandmother's language, the language in my mouth - you're going to tell me that's improper?

Jason Reynolds

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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The financial crisis revealed important weaknesses in many areas of our financial system.

Jerome Powell

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Digital imaging has untied our hands with regards to technical limitations. We no longer have to be arbiters of technology; we get to participate in the interpretation of technology into creative content.

John Dykstra

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My mother was a wonderful, wonderful woman with a lovely voice who hated housework, hated cooking even more and loved her children. She was always arranging church activities such as a bazaar.

Maureen Forrester

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I started with Tamil film, then Hindi. Now, I am also doing a Telugu film. The journey has been wonderful so far.

Amy Jackson

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Conservatives looking at presidential candidates have to ask what kind of leader they want sitting in the White House.

Tom Tancredo

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Life's the adventure. You don't have to drop your bundle and go bush. It's about being brave within the context that you're in.

Robyn Davidson

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My first inkling of what the Commonwealth might really mean came only when I escaped the oddly British-tinged Asia I had known and went to live in the Philippines.

Romesh Gunesekera

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We never did try to get together and to show the younger Negroes such as myself, to try and even to show that he has ambitions - and with just a little encouragement, I could have really done something worthwhile. But instead, we did nothing but let the young upstarts know that they were young and simple, and that was that.

Louis Armstrong

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I, also, found the opportunity to work with the actors extremely gratifying and rewarding.

Janine Turner

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Every time I try to tell people things about my career, I wonder if that's the truth or something I'm fantasizing about.

Johnny Mathis

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As an Old Navy style attendant, I'm all about upgrading your bare basics and presenting them to your customer as basics you need to have in your wardrobe.

Brad Goreski

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A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn't climb over it.

Arthur Baer

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