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Kerry James Marshall Quotes

The invention of the African American, or the Haitian or Jamaican, is a consequence of the transatlantic slave trade.

Kerry James Marshall

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: artist
Nationality: american
Birth: October 17, 1955

Topics

American Invention Slave Trade

I don't do a lot of guest shots on television.

John Larroquette

Television Guest Shots Lot

Being known as a writer did change the relationships I had with directors. The rap on actors is that they always want to inflate their parts. But when directors know you write screenplays and have a different view of things, you really get invited into the huddle in a much fuller way. And those collaborations end in friendships.

Change End View You Know Want

We cannot be a civilized society if these terrorists are going to have their ways.

Society Going Cannot Civilized Ways

I was really young, just playing with puppets a lot and doing all the voices and acting it out - normal kid stuff. But then I'd hear my mother talking about it to her relatives, marveling at it as if it was something unique. And it made me realize, 'Oh, maybe I do have a talent for something.'

Mother Talent Me Doing Talking Kid

More than anybody else I'd like to thank Count Basie for teaching me how to perform.

Me More Count Teaching Like Than

I do some things just to entertain myself, and I figure that part of the audience will be entertained as well.

Myself Will Audience Things Well

There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Good Income Few Poignant Sorrows

When I'm making songs, I never call them hits. I knew 'Bandz A Make Her Dance' was a good record, but I never knew it was gonna be a hit.

Good Dance Never Call Her Knew

People always ask what a book is about, as if it has to be about something. I don't want to write books that lend themselves to that sort of description. My books are more a kind of breaking-down.

Jonathan Safran Foer

People Book Want Kind More Write

A virtuous character is likened to an unblemished flower. Piety is a fadeless bud that half opens on earth and expands through eternity. Sweetness of temper is the odor of fresh blooms, and the amaranth flowers of pure affection open but to bloom forever.

Flower Character Flowers Earth Bloom

I love 'Seinfeld.' That was not alternative. You can't get more in mainstream than that.

Love You More Get Than Alternative

Keep every promise you make and only make promises you can keep.

Promises You Keep Only Promise Make

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