Bernice King Quotes

We are carrying collectively a lot of trauma, especially those of us in the African-American community. And if we're not careful, it'll overtake us, and we'll self-destruct.

Bernice King

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 28, 1963

Topics

CommunityTraumaAfrican-AmericanUs

All I care is that my family, and my loved ones, understand me. Or that they understand me to a degree - I don't understand me very much. And I don't need the world to understand me. That is the most egocentric thing.

Andrea Corr

FamilyMeWorldCareLovedNeed

I absolutely do believe that we need to not be so myopic. We ought to throw open widely the windows on the world in order to learn more about it.

Maya Soetoro-Ng

WorldBelieveLearnWindowsNeed

It seems like the more you grow up the more you fear things.

Melanie Laurent

FearGrowYouMoreGrow UpUp

We are drawn to artists who tell us that art is difficult to do and takes a spiritual effort, because we are still puritan enough to respect a strenuous spiritual effort.

John Updike

RespectArtSpiritualEffortEnough

I believe that music is a spiritual language. My everyday self is pretty mundane and boring, but when I'm making music it allows for me to communicate a kind of transcendence that I can't communicate otherwise.

Sufjan Stevens

MusicSpiritualMeBelieveLanguage

If the Olympics come around, and I'm in shape, then I'll compete. But I won't be representing the United States; I'll be representing myself.

Steve Prefontaine

MyselfShapeCompeteUnitedCome

The high price of health care in this country is a serious issue that demands serious attention. Putting limits on damages have little or no effect on skyrocketing malpractice insurance rates.

Mary Landrieu

HealthLimitsCareInsuranceCountry

Frankly, I was born with a silver spoon.

Mitt Romney

BornSilverSpoonI Was BornFrankly

A lot of beefs in the music industry are caused from miscommunication and just not really understanding what's going on, having people in your ear saying this is what somebody did, or this is what somebody did to you.

Ludacris

MusicPeopleSayingUnderstanding

I was born in Sarnia, Ontario; a small town, it's where oil was pretty much discovered in North America.

Chris Hadfield

SmallAmericaSmall TownBornOil

I love the finer things.

Pierce Brosnan

LoveThingsFinerI Love

The Jews who have arrived would nearly all like to remain here.

Peter Stuyvesant

HereWouldWhoLikeJewsArrived

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