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Constance Baker Motley Quotes

By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader.

Constance Baker Motley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Leader King Media New Become Rights

He told me he was working as an interpreter in a doctor's office in Brookline, Massachusetts, where I was living at the time, and he was translating for a doctor who had a number of Russian patients. On my way home, after running into him, I just heard this phrase in my head.

Home Time Me Doctor Living Way

It's hard to give up the self-esteem connected to being codependent and appearing 'right,' which is probably a survival behavior learned from growing up in a crazy family. It feels like you will actually disappear.

Family Crazy Growing Up Behavior You

I know that instructional time is a zero-sum game, but if we want kids to do well academically, it's hard to imagine that happening if they don't have some control over their attention.

Angela Duckworth

Time Control Game Attention Know

I don't think anyone has exhausted the range of sound possible in a conventional rock band, but people do become slaves to their own easiest techniques.

People Think Rock Become Possible

My older sister encouraged me from early on and bought me one of the first guitars I had. She listened to all of the crappy songs that I wrote when I was 8 years old and encouraged me to keep doing it.

Me Sister Doing Early She First

My father and my uncle used to be amateur monologuists because their generation grew up with Henry Irving and the like, and they had that style of delivery, of declamation: 'The Belllllls!' What we call 'ham' now, larger than life.

Life Father Style Generation Uncle

'Original Sin' is one of those ideas that has been circulating for several years at the Marvel retreats we have a couple times a year. We have all these ideas floating around for a bit before we figure out how to align them.

Ideas Year Sin Years Floating Out

Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Good Democracy Say Because Worse

Evil is such a simplistic way to describe any character, be it Iago or Caliban, or any character from history.

Character History Evil Way Describe

I'm a dog person, but I don't have a pet.

Obama fans become more and more glum that he keeps flubbing the very role he was expected to be so good at: Therapist to the nation. The Great Comforter.

Good Great Become More Nation Fans

Exercise is about being grateful for the body you have and sustaining the life you have.

Nicole Ari Parker

Life Grateful Exercise You Body

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