David Shields Quotes

From the first slave ship arriving in harbor, America stole and judged blacks. Black life that didn't fit into white logic was commercially exploited or lynched.

David Shields

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 22, 1956

Topics

LifeBlackShipAmericaLogicWhite

I think people have been really receptive to understanding that I've grown up and the music's going to sound a little different.

Joe Jonas

MusicPeopleThinkUnderstandingUp

I went to sleep away camp seven years in a row. I was such a pro.

Joe Jonas

SleepYearsAwaySevenRowPro

I think cheese smells funny, but I feel bananas 'are' funny. I'm assuming Swamp told the whole story of the executives seriously asking us to replace the banana with cheese because they thought it was funnier.

Joe Murray

FunnyStoryThinkThoughtFeel

Miss Marple believes in justice and has very high standards. There is nothing you could say or do that would shock her.

Joan Hickson

JusticeYouSayNothingHighHer

I'm an idealist without illusions.

John F. Kennedy

WithoutIllusionsIdealist

I was put in White City children's home when I was 15.

Amanda de Cadenet

HomeChildrenCityWhitePut

My dreams are of water. And my nightmares.

Siouxsie Sioux

DreamsWaterNightmares

I'm a person who perseveres. You know, you fall down, you get up.

Rita Moreno

YouFallDownPersonKnowUp

I was up playing violin at seven and translating that information to play guitar, piano at eight.

Ronnie Milsap

GuitarInformationPlayViolinPiano

Any time you've got both the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, you're not long for the White House.

Michael Moore

TimeLongYouHouseWhiteAgainst

Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.

Joseph Conrad

LoveLove IsImpossibleFeelingsOur

Clearly, there are many places where diesel is king or gas-turbine is king, or IC engines will win, but there are many places in the world where, as we've seen, they just won't do the job. The modern version of the Stirling engine has some very, very attractive characteristics, and we're trying to optimize it for some of those applications.

Dean Kamen

JobKingWinWorldTryingWill

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