Constance Baker Motley Quotes

There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.

Constance Baker Motley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: activist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 14, 1921 - September 28, 2005

Topics

SocietySingleCommonEmerging

Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing.

Joan Didion

YouDownGoTextureOriginalStill

So now 20 years later people want us to get together so they can take shots at all these old babes trying to get back some youth. I mean come on; I've been there. I know what the press would do.

Joan Jett

TogetherPeopleYouthGet Together

My goal is to do cartwheels for the rest of my life.

Andie MacDowell

LifeRestMy LifeGoal

A huge part of my identity is being a woman, and that's really important for me, and that's a big part of my self-expression, so I think it's really interesting sort of exploring what it means if someone doesn't have that.

Angourie Rice

WomanIdentityMeThinkInteresting

When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.

Amartya Sen

OpportunityHealthMeCareAward

America can't stop talking about Donald Trump. Even if we want to look away, we just can't.

Tom Steyer

AmericaTalkingLookStopWantJust

I loved 'Les Miz' and 'Into the Woods' - I used to cast 'Into the Woods' with my friends, even if they'd never stepped on stage before.

Rory O'Malley

WoodsLovedFriendsNeverStage

With the Patriot Bill in place, the NSA no longer needed to get a warrant from a judge to tap into anybody's electronic information. A Surveillance State that would have boggled the mind of Orwell was born.

Jay Parini

MindJudgeInformationBornPlace

I love travelling. I love cultures.

Joseph Fiennes

LoveCulturesTravellingI Love

We started getting the script to different people and we were in the business of trying to fund it so we could get it off and running, and all the characters and sets designed and everything.

Don Bluth

BusinessPeopleTryingEverything

Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes.

Cher

WordsSometimesLikeWeaponsWound

For me, having characters who are part of a faith then allows me to talk about how that faith either works or fails them without having to attack the institution.

Alice McDermott

FaithMeTalkWithoutInstitution

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