Luvvie Ajayi Quotes

Telling the truth - telling thoughtful truths - should not be a revolutionary act. Speaking truths to power should not be sacrificial, but they are.

Luvvie Ajayi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: nigerian
  • Birth: January 5, 1985

Topics

TruthPowerThoughtfulActSpeaking

In a general way, I want to be a kind of flag-waver, bunting hanger-up, drum-beater, you name it, for poetry.

Andrew Motion

PoetryNameYouWantKindWay

The Republican game is hilariously transparent: if Obama doesn't shift to more muscular postures, he's not a patriot. If he does, he's a flip-flopper.

Maureen Dowd

GamePatriotMoreRepublicanShift

I have a past of making a fool of myself.

Jed S. Rakoff

MyselfFoolPastMaking

Babies don't need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of.

Amy Heckerling

BabyCareSomeoneNeedMothersWho

For me, I never really wanted to be in a 'Sissy Spacek' vehicle. That was not my intention. I got to be the 'Everygirl.'

Sissy Spacek

MeIntentionNeverGotVehicle

Italy is divided between us and them, rich and poor, north and south, young and old, employed and unemployed.

Romano Prodi

RichYoungPoorOldDividedUs

Will Forte is such a nice, extraordinarily creative human being. Utterly fearless.

Mary Steenburgen

CreativeFearlessNiceWillHuman

Sure, things could always have been done better, but I just wish people would drop their political hammers for a few weeks, as happened in 2001, and work on the problem at hand.

Mitch Daniels

WorkPeopleBetterPoliticalWish

My first car was a '63 Chevy station wagon that I called Ramona, because that's the sound it made. 'Farm Use' was painted on the back. It was right off the set of 'Hee Haw.'

Judge Reinhold

CarFarmBackSoundFirstRight

I know my life is full of awkward pauses, and I think it's hilarious.

Josh Hutcherson

LifeThinkMy LifeKnowAwkward

Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist.

Jose Marti

ManLibertyKnowDrivenWhereExist

Our main thing we'd have to entertain us: All my uncles would come over, and we'd sit around the living room on a weekend night, and we'd play. That was a big event for me, getting to play. We never did have any percussion.

Dickey Betts

MeNightWeekendPlayLivingNever

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Luvvie Ajayi