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Luvvie Ajayi Quotes

People love my voice because they say I say what they were thinking but dare not to say because they had a filter or a job.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Love Job People Voice Thinking Say

I think what people might not really know about me is that I'm really a shy individual.

People Me Think Know Shy Individual

In prison, inmates sometimes use Cheetos and grape juice as makeup. I wouldn't use that beauty regimen around Britney Spears - she might lick your face off!

Beauty Makeup Face Prison Sometimes

We all need each other in publishing to make publishing work for authors in a variety of formats now and in the future. Anyone who thinks publishers don't bring anything to the table has a very narrow view and lack of knowledge about the industry as a whole.

Robert Gottlieb

Work Future Knowledge View Table

Well, the terrible thing right now, and I don't know the statistics, but there's a growing concern in some communities about how rapidly people are sent from school to jail, how quickly they're put into the criminal justice system. And of course the rapidly growing number of brown people, both men and women, in prison. And this is terrible.

Anna Deavere Smith

Women Justice Men School People

You just have to find your activism, and don't let anyone tell you what that should look like. If you're doing the work, and you're getting someone to think, you're on the right path.

Work Path Think Someone Doing Look

I can't divorce myself from my childhood. I try to write as much fiction as I possibly can, but there are so many things that are touchstones of my childhood like being on the swim team and playing soccer and the particularities of sports season and environments that make their way into my books.

Sports Myself Childhood Team Divorce

I'm an impulse buyer. I don't really go out with a list.

Sophie Kinsella

Go Out Impulse List Really Buyer

I've never seen myself as a pop singer. I grew up listening to gospel, soul and rock. My approach to pop is that, when I was doing my album, I wanted to have raw, genuine lyrics, but wanted it to be easy to process.

Myself Soul Listening Process Doing

We're never going to stop! Three hundred shows a year forever!

Year Stop Three Never Forever Going

It is shocking that the screen does not reflect the way the world is and the diversity in the world... What the world really looks like should be on screen, and it isn't.

Diversity World Looks Way Reflect

Instead of just giving lip service to improving our schools, I will actually put the kids first and the teachers union behind in giving our kids better teachers, better options and better choices for a better future.

Future Service Choices Better Giving

I've sort of mellowed out. It used to be: I want to be a star, do big movies. Now, being married, it's like the reasons I wanted to do that seem the wrong reasons. I want to have kids.

Wrong Now Want Movies Out Big

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