Claudia Rankine Quotes

If the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s civil rights movement made demands that altered the course of American lives and backed up those demands with the willingness to give up your life in service of your civil rights, with Black Lives Matter, a more internalized change is being asked for: recognition.

Claudia Rankine

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When I was an undergrad at Stanford, there was a girl named Jennie Kim who worked for the school newspaper. Sometimes people would come up to me and talk to me about articles she had written. 'That one on getting a Brazilian was hilarious', some guy said, high-fiving me.

Jenny Zhang

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Ernest Rutherford's 1908 Nobel Prize in Chemistry wasn't given for the nuclear power station - he wouldn't have survived that long - it was given for showing how interesting atomic physics could be.

Andre Geim

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To have the chance to see your music be elevated and to have almost universally positive response to that music, makes me feel better every day. I feel more confident and inspired, and that's fun.

John Legend

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I have a large collection of biographies about jazz musicians.

Michael Connelly

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I remember 'Roots' growing up and the cultural impact it had on the country. Watching 'Roots' was not the cool remove of reading about slavery in a book or hearing about it in class. It became something that swept people along.

John Ridley

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Wagner manages to convey emotion with music better than anyone, before or since.

Stephen Hawking

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The world is its own magic.

Shunryu Suzuki

WorldMagicOwn

As children, we did not have toys. We invented characters and animals; we invented stories.

Rithy Panh

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It was no great tragedy being Judy Garland's daughter. I had tremendously interesting childhood years - except they had little to do with being a child.

Liza Minnelli

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Architects have created this fake separation between creation and execution. You can see it in architecture schools, where the students look down on going to contracts classes.

Joshua Prince-Ramus

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I was rapping as a hobby. It was something I did for my friends and just played around on ideas and stuff like that.

Brandy Norwood

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Besides walking, I do stretches every day. I had back trouble starting when I turned 40, so I have to stretch out my muscles every day.

Anne Graham Lotz

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