Ntozake Shange Quotes

White people use their literature to maintain culture. That's why you find references to Milton and Spencer and Shakespeare and Dostoyevsky in contemporary novels.

Ntozake Shange

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The hoax is that there are some people who are so arrogant to think that they are so powerful, they can change climate. Man can't change climate.

Jim Inhofe

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All the power to them but I'm not interested in making yet another show that looks like some other show.

Jhonen Vasquez

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When I reached my senior year in high school, I fell into a hole that took a couple of decades to get out of.

John Grant

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Get practiced at taking deep breaths before you speak. This will give you the space to stop, notice what was about to come out of your mouth, and course correct if needed.

Jen Sincero

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We've made elevator music of Jesus Christ. We've made Him the most boring, bland, blah person; and He was the most revolutionary man.

John Eldredge

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Music is a prerogative of those who are willing to spend time to study it, understand and love it, well aware of the fact that one life is not enough to improve just one single note of what has already been written and performed.

Andrea Bocelli

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I like certain pieces monogrammed because it gives my closet and home warmth - it's just something that you could really feel comfortable with. It's yours; it's something personal. I do it for fun.

Melania Trump

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Skunk works were emblematic of corporate structures that focused on execution and devalued innovation.

Steve Blank

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I'm a history dork and a sci-fi dork.

Sprague Grayden

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For me soccer provides so many emotions, a different feeling every day. I've had the good fortune to take part in major competitions like the Olympics, and winning the World Cup was also unforgettable. We lost in the Olympics and won in the World Cup, and I'll never forget either feeling.

Ronaldinho

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Spain, must we some day tell Filipinas that thou hast no ear for her woes and that if she wishes to be saved she must redeem herself?

Jose Rizal

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But the federal government, our collective government, has responsibilities that none of these other levels of government can fulfill; and chief among these is national defense.

Don Nickles

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