Buchi Emecheta Quotes

Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us.

Buchi Emecheta

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: nigerian
  • Birth: July 21, 1944 - January 25, 2017

Topics

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With prurient absorption and only minimal risk, we can pretend to be the subject of the lead article on the front page of the Style section of our local newspaper for as long as it takes to finish our morning coffee.

Joanna Scott

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I was never into the popular school or clique or anything. Then I started doing movies when I was in high school, so then I got popular. Then the girls paid attention to you who didn't before.

John Cusack

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Postal service of today is far removed from that of 30 years ago when reform was last enacted.

John M. McHugh

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The role I really want to sing is Elisabetta from 'Don Carlo.'

Anna Netrebko

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Frankly, sometimes you have to go into the belly of the beast, as they say, and take on some of these individuals even if they're entirely unprofessional, like Tucker Carlson.

Michael Avenatti

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Whenever a total eclipse of the sun was visible in an accessible region parties were sent out to observe it.

Simon Newcomb

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The radio has so many rules, and songs don't. You don't necessarily write to a rule book unless you're, like, just doing it professionally, which has never been my thing.

Tom Petty

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I talk to players all the time.

Roger Goodell

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I am someone who, from a very young age, was a huge fan of DC Comics.

Jason Fuchs

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Whatever I do seems artificial and false, to me.

Jasper Johns

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I learned a lesson which I didn't heed: Don't put yourself in your movies. It's too much.

Josh Radnor

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I'm obsessed with gymnastics. It's like my football. And I like to watch women's gymnastics a little bit more than men's because I live for balance beam.

Jonathan Van Ness

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