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Arna Bontemps Quotes

How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: October 13, 1902 - June 4, 1973

Topics

Me Parent Dare Tell Act Critic

When you win, nothing hurts.

Success Win You Nothing Hurts

I assume the risk of allowing my fiction to enter other people's true stories. And to be fair, I let other people's stories trespass the truth of mine.

John Edgar Wideman

Truth People True Risk Fair Fiction

The real challenge lies in maintaining dignity while being funny. I am in awe of Krushna Abhishek's energy and Bharti Singh's wit. They are infectious and selfless.

Amruta Khanvilkar

Funny Challenge I Am Energy Selfless

I've always liked wearing black. Hats with veils would suit me just fine.

Me Black Hats Always Suit Fine

I like cosy, intimate houses.

Like Intimate Houses

I don't want to fly the flag for being unhealthy and overweight, but I don't want to fly the flag for being too thin, either.

Martine McCutcheon

Fly Want Flag Being Overweight Thin

Actors are pretending for you, but they're not lying. They are not putting on a guise instead of themselves. They are finding things inside that they have experienced.

Finding You Lying Inside Pretending

When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.

Michel de Montaigne

Me Play More She Cat Her

Take a martial art or a sport, something that gives you a skill, engages the body, and allows you the possibility of being great - or at least being active. You'll find your confidence. Without it, you're nothing. It's the remedy for everything.

Confidence Great Art You Body Find

Once solved, the severe handicaps imposed on space exploration by the weight and chemical limitations of rockets would no longer apply. The whole timetable of our conquest of the planets in our solar system would be tremendously speeded up, from hot Mercury all the way out to frigid Pluto.

Donald A. Wollheim

Space Exploration Way Hot Solar Out

I think scale is about, in a way, the apprehension of proportion, and all the proportions that mean things to us as human beings are related to the body.

Think Body Way Mean Human Things

I never do anything that doesn't feel natural to me. I wake up in the morning and I know what to put on - it's my sixth sense, really.

Poppy Delevingne

Morning Me Wake Up Feel Know Never

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