Grace Lee Boggs Quotes

Jimmy Boggs was born in a little town called Marion Junction, Alabama, where there were as many pigs, or more pigs, than even the people. But you know what? People in the South had an understanding that you could make a way out of no way, and that's how they survived.

Grace Lee Boggs

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 27, 1915 - October 5, 2015

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PeopleUnderstandingYouBornKnow

You can't live in your own secluded world. If you're not on the Tube, on the bus doing normal things, how can you relate to people?

Andrea Corr

LivePeopleWorldDoingYouBus

I do what I want to do.

Melvin Van Peebles

Want

I'm just a pretty regular dad.

Ang Lee

PrettyJustRegularDad

There's a way in which these guys all think absolutely media, day and night. Access is what it's all about, so they spin 24 hours a day and that's a problem.

Michael Ignatieff

DayNightThinkProblemMediaWay

I gave Mitt Romney some donations for his campaign because he was a friend, and friendship came first. I've always been a Democrat, and I've had different views than Mitt Romney. I'm not Mitt Romney, and I think people will realize that when they meet me out there.

Stephen Pagliuca

FriendshipFriendPeopleMeThink

The first census in 1790 asked just six questions: the name of the head of the household, the number of free white males older than 16, the number of free white males younger than 16, the number of free white females, the number of other free persons, and the number of slaves.

Tom G. Palmer

FreeNameQuestionsWhiteFirst

I remember when I was in college, I used to watch Julia Child's cooking show during dinner and joke with my roommates about becoming a TV chef.

Martin Yan

CookingChildCollegeChefDinner

The 'beach read' has become such a ubiquitous concept in contemporary literature that we assume it has always been around. In fact, the term only emerged in the 1990s, usually in book trade publications such as 'Booklist' and 'Publisher's Weekly.'

Michelle Dean

BeachBookLiteratureBecomeAlways

People who know my track record know when I've got a vision in mind, I'll see it through. But sometimes it's hard to convey what you're trying to achieve.

Julia Davis

VisionPeopleMindTryingYouKnow

There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.

Josh Billings

PeopleEnjoyTroubleWayNeverWho

The Internet is a collective hallucination: one of the best humanity has ever generated.

Jonathan Zittrain

BestInternetHumanityCollective

I aspire to be that, to be a voice of reason one day.

Drew Barrymore

DayVoiceOne DayReasonAspire

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