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Constance Baker Motley Quotes

How long must the American community afford special treatment to blacks?

Constance Baker Motley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Community American Long Special Must

A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.

Happy Mind World Better Short Wish

Still, the change is nearly indescribable - going from total obscurity to walking down a street in New York and having everybody turn and look; to feel the temperature of a room change when I walked in.

Change New York Feel Walking Look

I think I've actually had a pretty standard upbringing. My parents are really normal, so I've always had them around to keep me grounded.

Parents Me Think Always Normal Keep

Between an uncontrolled escalation and passivity, there is a demanding road of responsibility that we must follow.

Dominique de Villepin

Responsibility Road Follow Must

I remember how, when I lived in Paris, there was a McDonald's, and I'd always see Americans eating there and think, 'Why do they come all the way to Paris and eat at McDonald's?'

Eating Think Remember Paris McDonald

It's a very rich brew that's in your psyche by the time you're in your 60s, and I think that's rather interesting. It makes you feel you've lived a very long life; it's like going on holiday to three different cities rather than spending two weeks in Lisbon. You look back on the holiday, and you seem to have been away forever.

Deborah Moggach

Life Time Rich Think Interesting

When I started 'Still Missing,' I had a few key plot points in mind, which I played around with mentally for a couple of months, then one day I just started writing. Not having an outline led to some cool plot twists, but also many rewrites! A lot of the plotting happened on subsequent drafts.

Day Mind Cool Writing Key One Day

Those early days of comedy are when you get addicted to it.

Comedy You Early Days Get Those

Words will never be enough to quantify and qualify the many magnitudes of human-caused destruction.

Clemantine Wamariya

Words Enough Will Never Destruction

Deep down inside, I do feel, at times, that I have to prove to people that I'm actually an artist.

People Deep Feel Artist Down Prove

Compromise is the key element. The more constraints you have, the more compromise you have to have. But, I personally believe that, when that happens, you have to get more creative, and you end up with something that is even better.

Thomas Ian Nicholas

Creative Believe Key End Better You

In 1945, when the Second World War technically ends in Poland, the incoming Soviet army liberates some groups of people but begins to oppress the general population, in some ways more harshly than it had happened before.

War People World Army More Begins

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