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Al Sharpton Quotes

I've learned how to measure what I say. Al Sharpton in 1986 was trying to be heard. I was a local guy and was like, 'Y'all are ignoring us.'

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: american
Birth: October 3, 1954

Topics

Trying Measure Say Guy Us Ignoring

People ask me about staying here. I think they assume that I wouldn't want to come back to a place like Mississippi, which is so backward and which frustrates me a lot. The responsibility that I feel to tell these stories about the people and the place that I'm from is what pulls me back.

Responsibility People Me Think Feel

People pump gas and then they go in the store and pick up some things and pay for them, and they forget to mention the gas.

People Go Forget Pay Up Things

The skills associated with knowledge creation are totally different from the skills associated with production.

Knowledge Skills Creation Production

In New York, if you weigh under 200 pounds and decline so much as a cookie at a co-worker's party, women will flock to your side, assuring you of your appealing physique. This is how skittish we are about the dangers of anorexia and the pressures of body image.

Women New York You Body Party New

In the 1980s America reacted to the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan. We supported a war that left a nation torn to pieces. And as the last Soviet tank left the country, so did we.

War America Country Nation Pieces

When I got home from hospital, and I was in a wheelchair in a plaster body cast, an aeroplane flew over. And I thought to myself, 'Well, if I can't walk, then I might as well fly.' And I was lifted into the aeroplane for the first time. And when I took the controls of the aeroplane, I knew this was something I could do. I thought, 'I can fly.'

Janine Shepherd

Home Time Myself Walk Fly Thought

So if one day the result becomes 3-3, for me it doesn't change my mind, because it's football, it's normal. What is not normal is that we haven't been scoring enough goals playing such good football as we've been playing in the last few weeks.

Change Good Goals Day Football Mind

For me now, I will continue to focus ever harder on my goal of being the very best I can be with Toulon Rugby Club and continue to embrace and enjoy wherever that path takes me.

Jonny Wilkinson

Path Best Focus Me Enjoy Goal

The biggest challenge for me is just knowing how to calm down.

Challenge Me Calm Down Knowing Just

I like to play people that are real, a real person, and then something that's interesting with that person. I think it's a lot more challenging to do that than something that's extremely fantasy-like.

People Think Interesting Person Play

I don't like venison or sushi - I don't want to eat what some people think are 'luxurious' foods.

People Think Sushi Want Some People

I certainly know about the oppression and prejudices of being black and a woman and from the South.

Woman Black Know Oppression Being

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