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Rashid Johnson Quotes

You can really learn a lot from young people and the way they view the world.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: photographer
Nationality: american
Birth: 1977

Topics

People World Learn View You Young

I'm a Texan. Some of me is still nestled up there in the Catskill Mountains: the summers I spent with my grandfather on the farm and the guys I played basketball with in high school. But then that was it.

Jerry Jeff Walker

Mountains School Me Basketball Farm

There's a history of enslaved African-Americans having to make their slave masters comfortable. This business of what we call skinning and grinning - that is something African-Americans are very much cognizant of.

Business History Comfortable Slave

I've never made a record that I'm ashamed of.

Never Ashamed Made Record

Most of the people I know who were raised to be accommodating or were raised to just be nice and put everybody's needs ahead of theirs, there comes a moment when the pressure builds and they can't do it anymore. They have needs and they feel neglected and they usually explode.

Stephen Chbosky

Moment People Pressure Feel Be Nice

I am like the sick sheep that strays from the rest of the flock. Unless the Good Shepherd takes me on His shoulders and carries me back to His fold, my steps will falter, and in the very effort of rising, my feet will give way.

Good I Am Effort Me Sick Rest

Eleven days before 9/11, I was on a plane with the 9/11 hijackers who were carrying out a dry run.

Run Out Days Dry Who Carrying

Very few of the men whose names have become great in the early pioneering of jazz and of swing were trained in music at all. They were born musicians: they felt their music and played by ear and memory. That was the way it was with the great Dixieland Five.

Louis Armstrong

Music Great Men Memory Musicians

Submitting to censorship is to enter the seductive world of 'The Giver': the world where there are no bad words and no bad deeds. But it is also the world where choice has been taken away and reality distorted. And that is the most dangerous world of all.

Words World Reality Bad Choice Been

I'm into designing houses and interior design. I like change. I like creating things out of nothing.

Chris Kirkpatrick

Change Design Creating Nothing Out

'Lost in Translation' was a year of my life, if not more, and then 'Marie Antoinette' was about three years of my life.

Life My Life Year Lost Three More

I tell everybody the same thing: You have to make every dish so when you taste it, you should remember it when you go home.

Home Remember You Go Taste Tell

Everybody is sitting around saying, 'Well, jeez, we need somebody to solve this problem of bias.' That somebody is us. We all have to try to figure out a better way to get along.

Wilma Mankiller

Saying Better Problem Sitting Way

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