Lexi Alexander Quotes

While I was able to pass as white as soon as I came to America, this was not really possible while I was growing up, as it was pretty obvious that I wasn't 'all German.' So my privilege was that in America, I could conveniently withhold one of my bloodlines and avoid racism and discrimination. That is not a privilege most people of color have.

Lexi Alexander

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: director
  • Nationality: german
  • Birth: August 23, 1974

Topics

RacismPeopleGrowing UpColorWhite

The romance of English football is fantastic, but it has lost its identity under the influence of other cultures.

Johan Cruyff

FootballIdentityInfluenceLost

Everywhere that Americans spread off the Eastern seaboard, heading west across this country, they put up the schoolhouse first, hired a schoolteacher, and put all the kids in school.

John Glenn

SchoolCountryFirstUpSpreadWest

I don't think about scoring more goals than a team-mate, only to score.

Alvaro Morata

GoalsThinkMoreScoreOnlyThan

Not everybody is Cindy Crawford.

Summer Altice

EverybodyCindy

You get to really master the emotion of humility as a Chiefs fan.

Rob Riggle

HumilityYouEmotionMasterGetFan

It's very difficult to think of new ways to blow things up!

Robert Wade

ThinkNewDifficultUpThingsVery

I have always said to myself, 'I never want to say I'm leaving a job because I want to spend more time with my family.' I feel sorry for people when they say that. But my advice to them is that you shouldn't have taken the job in the first place.

Louis Freeh

FamilyTimeMyselfJobPeopleSorry

I grew my beard out a little bit just to show that, indeed, I am a man.

Johnny Weir

ManI AmBeardOutLittleJust

I think actors always retain one foot in the cradle. We're switched on to our youth, to our childhood. We have to be because we're in the business of transferring emotions to other people.

Derek Jacobi

BusinessChildhoodPeopleYouthFoot

It's funny because I think, as a general rule, that people seem to think that if you do lots of different things over the course of, like, a timeline, it means that you kind of disregard what you did before. But that's not true of me. I still genuinely like everything I did as much as I liked it when I released it.

Dev Hynes

FunnyPeopleMeThinkYouTrue

My folks made me a Jawa costume for the Halloween after 'Star Wars' opened in '77. In '78, when it was re-released, I was hired by the local cinema to be the Jawa: to dress up all summer long, and I could frighten people with my Jawa sounds and my Jawa outfit and watch 'Star Wars Episode IV' all summer long and get paid with movie passes.

Dee Bradley Baker

DressPeopleMeLongCinemaOutfit

I looked real Neanderthal. I could have been Mexican, I could have been black; I could have been anything.

Wolfman Jack

BlackRealMexicanAnythingBeen

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