Hilary Beckles Quotes

The Caribbean world has changed radically since the 1960s, and postcolonial generations have very different mentalities from those that went before.

Hilary Beckles

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: historian
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  • Birth: August 11, 1955

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But the good news is that out in the countryside, just about every place that's got a zip code has somebody or some group of people battling the economic and political exclusion that Wall Street and Washington are shoving down our throats.

Jim Hightower

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I'm not going to put my energy into dunking every time I get the ball. That's stupid.

Andrew Bogut

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I love strong women.

John Hillcoat

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When I watch movies - when I watch 'Star Wars' - you want to watch the fun characters, the diversions.

Matthew Gray Gubler

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When you love a problem, its contours, obstacles and resistances are all just part of its character.

Steven Strogatz

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As much as I love the business and I love my fans, I don't want to be at every WrestleMania.

Stone Cold Steve Austin

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You write about experiences partly to understand what they mean, partly not to lose them to time. To oblivion. But there's always the danger of the opposite happening. Losing the memory of the experience itself to the memory of writing about it.

Sigrid Nunez

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Because my father was a psychiatric nurse, I know my way around the system.

Trisha Goddard

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Authors can get an attitude of us-against-them when it comes to publishers, but learning how authors and editors can work together taught me to look at my work in a different way and to make that work as solid as possible before it ever goes to the publisher.

Tracie Peterson

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I can be accused of being acerbic as a critic and writer.

Rod Lurie

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Women's Lib? Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts.

Lucille Ball

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I don't think that you have to be effeminate to be sensitive.

Little Richard

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