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Janet Mock Quotes

I spent my life navigating systems built upon me - a black child in America - not making it out.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: March 10, 1983

Topics

Life Child Me Black My Life America

Losing one grounds you a bit. I learned a lot after losing the title in 2009, learned that I was probably too intense that year, and when I didn't win, I just felt horrible.

Losing Win Year You Horrible Just

Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.

Robert Delaunay

Nature Art Horror Constraint

What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people.

Good Women Wife People City Texas

Anyone who knows anything about me knows that I am a very patriotic guy, in terms of my Scottishness and my roots.

I Am Me Roots Anything Guy Knows

I tell my students that if you have enough preparation, you can handle the big interviews. You won't be intimidated.

Preparation Enough You Tell Big

I'm a bad dater - I'm just not good at it. It's so weird dating in this town. It's like high school. I get a lot of people who have their publicist call my agent to ask, 'Is she dating anyone?'

Good Dating School People Weird Bad

I've always had a plan. Even since, maybe, 12 years old. Really.

Plan Old Always Years Even Maybe

I am a father, and sometimes I want to stay close to home. By varying the workplace, it gives me space to breathe. I enjoy theatre because it reminds me I'm mortal, and it's terrifying when it goes wrong but the most thrilling experience when it flies.

Father Home Experience I Am Space

I once had money to burn. I'd fly to Barbados for the weekend. I lived in a twenty-two-room mansion and had my pick of four luxury cars.

Money Fly Weekend Luxury Burn Lived

You cannot negotiate with organizations that are based on an ideology whose core is to destroy the West and America.

America You West Destroy Ideology

I'm a father of three Mexican-American kids.

Father Three Kids

At NIH, what tends to happen is that the proven researchers tend to get the money. New researchers, younger researchers, or people on the cutting edge don't get the money until they have gray beards.

Money People Edge New Gray Happen

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