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Septima Poinsette Clark Quotes

I never felt that getting angry would do you any good other than hurt your own digestion, keep you from eating, which I liked to do.

Septima Poinsette Clark

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: american
Birth: May 3, 1898 - December 15, 1987

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Good Angry Eating Hurt You Never

A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.

Love Him To Love Awakening Awaken

When you make mistakes, when you're wrong, you should admit you're wrong and ask people to forgive you.

Mistakes People You Wrong Admit Ask

Some of the most green people in our lives are our parents and grandparents, who always bought locally and carefully. I remember my grandmother would buy a jar of cream and make it last for a long time. To me, that is just as green as something with an expensive, eco-savvy label on it.

Time Parents People Me Green Long

I can't do anything too serious like Saddam Hussein, but I would like to do Bill Clinton. That'd be fun.

Fun Serious Anything Would Like Too

The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment.

Live Moment Practice Meditation Real

What I absolutely can't do is just sit around, that drives me crazy. I go nuts! I'm far too nervous, too high strung to sit around. It's not my thing; I can't deal with it!

Me Crazy Go Nervous Nuts High

I always say, 'Man, the Creator is preparing me for something. He's keeping the sun on me for some reason. He's keeping me aligned with that generation.' Because I genuinely love people, I love hip-hop, and I love using it as a tool to communicate and to create a better vibration.

Love Man Sun People Me Better

I think Charlottesville was shocking for some, but it wasn't for me or for my family, I mean, because I grew up in 1980s Nashville.

Family Me Think Mean Nashville Up

Want to know the best thing about being a professor? Colored chalk.

Best Know Want Professor Being

Maybe, as a Chinese woman, I was never told I would be a filmmaker, so I didn't have the ego set up.

Woman Ego Never Up Filmmaker Would

Growing up as a product of the black civil-rights movement, I had a lot of different models for black weirdness, whether it's Richard Pryor or James Baldwin or Jimmy Walker.

Colson Whitehead

Growing Up Black Growing Movement Up

If Republicans want to bring these things up for a vote, I'm letting them know where I stand.

Stand Know Want Vote Up Bring

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