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Courtney A. Kemp Quotes

We use the word 'urban' to mean black or Latino, but that's not what the word means. It actually means 'from the city.' I'm not from the city. I'm from the suburbs of Connecticut. I grew up with mostly all white people.

Courtney A. Kemp

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: May 4, 1977

Topics

People City Black White Mean Latino

I don't tolerate anything that runs slowly. Whether it be a phone, tablet or computer, it has to run at optimum speed.

Joe Trohman

Speed Phone Run Anything Tolerate

If I wanted to do the same thing every day, I would have gone into a different profession.

Maya Hawke

Day Every Day Same Gone Different

I don't understand these politicians who want to be president and complain when they get a tough interview.

Megyn Kelly

Tough Want Understand President Get

I have learned that music helps a lot of people survive, and they want songs that can give them something - I guess you could call it hope.

Maurice White

Music Hope People Survive You Want

There is a great suspicion of saying that anyone, especially a child, is 'the product of destiny,' or 'formed by fate,' or 'predestined for a certain life.' I am suspicious, too, of efforts to cage children or adults in preconceived ideas of who they are or should be.

Michael Gurian

Life Children Great I Am Child Fate

If a guy ever walks into a restaurant on a date wearing mandals, you need to leave immediately. It's just not necessary.

Amber Valletta

Restaurant You Need Leave Guy Just

Any school which wants to create an impact on the society should work on creating leaders.

Shiv Nadar

Work School Society Impact Create

If someone messes with me, I'm going to mess with them.

Tom Sizemore

Me Someone Mess Going Messes Them

We have now under President Obama's leadership had 29 months in a row of private sector job growth. That stretch of positive private sector job growth hasn't happened since 2005. We still have a long way to go, but we are moving in the right direction.

Martin O'Malley

Positive Leadership Growth Job Long

The truth is, anyone can start projects. The world is full of just-started projects that looked great at the time but were never completed.

Joyce Meyer

Truth Great Time World Start Never

I was never exposed to a great deal of racism, but the Chicago I grew up in was very, very segregated.

Don Cornelius

Great Racism Chicago Never Up Deal

Grateful people may recover faster from trauma.

Deborah Norville

Grateful People Trauma May Faster