David Levering Lewis Quotes

It was clear to many American working men and women that the Homestead Steel Strike of the early 1890s, when Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick broke the backs of the steel workers, that that was a watershed.

David Levering Lewis

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I feel like now is great time for a rom-com because the genre is sort of being opened up to being told by people that look different from each other or who have different orientations.

Jessica Williams

GreatTimePeopleFeelLookNow

That's true but I think the contemporary problem that we are facing increasing numbers of black people and other people of color being thrown into a status that involves work in alternative economies and increasing numbers of people who are incarcerated.

Angela Davis

WorkPeopleColorBlackThinkTrue

A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.

Jeff Bridges

WorkGreatBelieveYouActingHard

Friends are the siblings God never gave us.

Mencius

FriendshipGodFriendsNeverUs

I've been arrested several times. I've been known to dress in ludicrous fashions. I've also built a career out of negative reviews.

John Waters

DressNegativeCareerOutBeen

It's the people who don't recognize the racism within themselves that can be the most damaging because they don't see it.

Sterling K. Brown

RacismPeopleSeeWithinBecause

The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal.

Ritchie Blackmore

GoodBestGeniusYouCopyWay

I've been invited to the Grammys with other friends who were nominated. I'm like, 'Naw, I'm not gonna go until it's my time.' And who knew it was gonna be, like, the next year? It's crazy.

Ro James

TimeCrazyFriendsYearGoNext

I'm very apolitical. I mean, after having covered politicians so much all my life, I basically have no belief in politics. But it's more of an attitude and a discipline in the way you approach life, I think, than it is just what lever you pull in a voting booth.

Liz Trotta

LifeAttitudeDisciplinePolitics

If we allow public funds to be used to support our relatively benign, morally grounded schools, we will have to allow those public funds to be used for any type of private school.

Jonathan Kozol

SchoolSupportWillUsedGrounded

I work in fantasy all day, so when I go home, I want to touch reality.

Johnny Galecki

WorkHomeDayRealityGoWant

We women are fools to do so much for the man we love. And we forget to stand for ourselves.

Divyanka Tripathi

LoveWomenManStandFoolsForget

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