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Marian Wright Edelman Quotes

Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.

Marian Wright Edelman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: american
Birth: June 6, 1939

Topics

Yourself Learn Enough You Quiet

I will not be a Democrat or a Republican. They are the problem, not the solution. We need to abolish political parties in this country.

Political Problem Solution Country

If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury; if from a small cause, it is peevishness; and so is always either terrible or ridiculous.

Great Anger Small Ridiculous Always

It has given me a global vantage point, being the daughter of immigrants from China, who had nothing when they came here. And now I am leading a company. It speaks to something deep in me, the concept that you don't have to start with anything.

Daughter I Am Me Start Deep You

I lived with a bunch of guys for about a year in L.A. when I was younger. But I never had a weird roommate situation.

Weird Year Situation Never Lived

Becoming a mother has been the best thing ever for me. It's become my life's work. Not just parenting, but sharing information and encouraging other women to be receptive to the basic nature of motherhood.

Life Work Nature Mother Women Best

I'm not into cold weather, I like warm weather.

Weather Cold Warm Cold Weather Like

I like to make bombueti, which is basically the South African national dish. It's basically a South African curry shepherd's pie kind of thing.

Pie Kind Shepherd Make Like Curry

Spielberg is our hero. For him to make a nod to 'Godzilla' just before we make our movie is like getting the king to acknowledge you at dinner.

Hero King Dinner You Him Just

If you don't like airline food, you'll probably have the same impression of space station food. I would not fly to space for the food.

Food Space Fly You Same Impression

I think if you're gonna do something as silly and lighthearted as entertainment, then why not be interesting when you're doing it?

Chelsea Handler

Think Interesting Doing Silly You

I'm very emotional and possessive about all my films.

Emotional Possessive Very About

When I was 12, I wrote a legit song - about having my heart broken, of course, because I was 12 years old going on 40. I sang the song for my mom, and she asked, 'Where did you get that song?' I told her I wrote it, and she said, 'Really?' She looked at my grandparents and just said, 'Oh, boy.'

Heart Broken Mom Song You Said

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