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Pearl Cleage Quotes

When you sit down to write, you have to be prepared to strip all of those voices away, all of the censors away, and talk about what you think the truth is, which I think is really the task of the writer - to get to the truth.

Pearl Cleage

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Truth Truth Is Think You Down Talk

The relationship of black Americans to Obama is sociologically riveting.

Andrew Sullivan

Relationship Black Obama

Little things can make such a big difference during recording.

Matt Cameron

Little Things Difference Little Big

I'm getting ready to write a piece now, and it's been six months thinking about it, changing the instrumentation, changing the name, doing more reading.

John Zorn

Reading Thinking Name Doing Ready

No offense to Iceland, but Latin America is where the fugitive leaker Edward Snowden should settle.

Stephen Kinzer

America Settle Iceland Where Offense

I think women in pop have been declawed and defanged, and they're just meant to look pretty and sing pretty.

Shirley Manson

Women Think Look Pretty Sing Been

My family is very discreet. White-shoe, you know?

Tom Sizemore

Family You Know Discreet Very

When Gingrich attacked CNN's John King for bringing up his alleged proposal of an open marriage to his second wife, Gingrich accused him of lowering the level of discourse in a presidential debate, suggesting that such a discussion is unworthy of consideration by voters.

Robert Dallek

Marriage Wife King Debate Him Open

There is scarcely anything to which I am so feelingly alive as the honour and welfare of my country, and, as a poet, I have no higher enjoyment than singing her sons and daughters.

Robert Burns

I Am Singing Country Alive Anything

I experienced the sharp end of a tough time, living with a single parent, my mum, and she was really struggling to get a job. These are the things that form your views in life. They are established when you are growing up and being raised. That stuff doesn't really go away; that stays with you.

Matt Bellamy

Life Time Job Growing Up Tough End

There are very few songs I really hate.

Lou Barlow

Hate Songs Few Very Really

I can't say I was a very successful sorority girl.

Joyce Carol Oates

Girl Say Successful Very

Al Jazeera aired a new tape of Osama bin Laden. It was the usual stuff, he called Bush evil, the Great Satan, called him a war monger. Basically, the same thing you heard at last night's Democratic debate.

Jay Leno

Great War Evil Night You Debate