Pearl Cleage Quotes

As African-Americans, we often spend our time and energy blaming other people for the problems we see around us.

Pearl Cleage

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 7, 1948

Topics

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Our society is used to judging content by its package and label.

Joanna Krupa

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Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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You have to keep persevering. An actor goes to a lot of auditions and doesn't get the part.

John McEnroe

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We're supposed to do all these things which trouble us deeply because it's so against what we naturally would want to do.

Maurice Sendak

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I don't think it's good for economy to have a broken immigration system.

Michael Grimm

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Being in the desert was brilliant and it was hard.

Toni Collette

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With plays that require any kind of reading program, I'm reading for a couple of years before using the material.

Tom Stoppard

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My phrase has always been that I am looking for the versatility of theatre in film. I think I have been quite lucky in that so far.

Miranda Richardson

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I am convinced that when the history of international law comes to be written centuries hence, it will be divided into two periods: the first being from the earliest times to the end of the nineteenth century, and the second beginning with the Hague Conference.

Ludwig Quidde

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I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape.

Desmond Morris

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The first step in changing a culture, I believe, starts with the senior leadership team - and with the CEO.

Denise Morrison

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I've played Hamlet and Coriolanus, Orlando in 'As You like It' and Ariel in 'Tempest,' among others.

Christian Camargo

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