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Ava DuVernay Quotes

All black women aren't sassy, loud, difficult, or subservient. We are, in fact, very complex and very diverse, living very complex and diverse lives. That point cannot be made enough.

Ava DuVernay

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: August 24, 1972

Topics

Women Black Enough Living Difficult

We didn't have any solution to the world's problems. I mean, we were trying to grow up in a socialist way to some future where the world might be less of a miserable place than it is.

Joe Strummer

Future World Problems Grow Solution

I think one thing I've learned over the years is just that you're not going to ever please everyone, and the most important person to please is yourself.

Jeremy Scott

Yourself Think You Person Important

Years of drought and famine come and years of flood and famine come, and the climate is not changed with dance, libation or prayer.

John Wesley Powell

Prayer Dance Years Flood Come

Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.

John Updike

Change Mirror Art People Facts Know

I want to spend my life with someone and do nice things and go on adventures, read books and have nice food and celebrate things. I don't want to spend the rest of my life in the bedroom like some people who just go to bed and never get out again.

Tracey Emin

Life Food People Celebrate Rest Go

And, you know, I liked writing humor. Well, I should say, I wanted to write seriously, but it kept turning funny.

Roseanne Barr

Funny Humor Writing You Know Say

I try not to eat cakes, but sugar screams my name.

Mary Gauthier

Name Sugar Try Eat Cakes

I'm ready for a Christianity that 'ruins' my life, that captures my heart and makes me uncomfortable. I want to be filled with an astonishment which is so captivating that I am considered wild and unpredictable and... well... dangerous. Yes, I want to be 'dangerous' to a dull and boring religion.

Mike Yaconelli

Life Heart Religion I Am Me My Life

Shakespeare's work is like a good song: you never really forget the main lines.

Michelle Dockery

Work Good Song You Forget Never

The first time someone called me a role model, I remember thinking, 'What does that mean?' But I feel aware of it when I'm reading scripts.

Miranda Cosgrove

Time Me Reading Thinking Someone

I've probably got the most eclectic social media there is because it literally goes from hanging out with my son at a park, to, like, Madonna's house, to a rave in Africa.

Diplo

Son Social Media Media House Africa

Liberalism is financed by the dividends from Conservatism.

Craig Bruce

Liberalism Conservatism Dividends