Patrisse Cullors Quotes

Racism has its boot squarely wedged on the neck of black communities, and we don't want to be told that hard work and responsibility are the answer.

Patrisse Cullors

Recitation: by Male by Female

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WorkHard WorkResponsibilityRacism

I think it's a very old and deep-seated double standard that holds that when a man writes about family and feelings, it's literature with a capital L, but when a woman considers the same topics, it's romance, or a beach book - in short, it's something unworthy of a serious critic's attention.

Jennifer Weiner

FamilyBeachWomanManBookThink

I get a lot of letters. Not only from children but from adults, too. Almost every week, every month, clippings come in from some part of the world where ducks are crossing the street.

Robert McCloskey

ChildrenWorldWeekLettersStreet

The government should now launch an initiative to encourage people to join the social work profession.

Andy Sawford

WorkGovernmentPeopleInitiative

I make static art, not dynamic art. That's what I do.

Michael Heizer

ArtDynamicMakeStatic

The industries that fall first are the industries that either produce electromechanical items that are now inferior to their software substitutes, or the industries that produce a mechanically created service that's now inferior.

Michael J. Saylor

ServiceFallNowSoftwareFirst

Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It's a company town, and I happen to like the company!

Michael Caine

HealthFarmHollywoodRecreation

I'm a performer. I'm pretending to be someone else. I'm not putting my own self into the show every night.

Steve Kazee

NightSelfSomeoneMy OwnPretending

I remember telling the Lord - I was about seventeen or eighteen - I'm like, 'Lord, I'm never gonna sing. You know that's my family's thing; that not what I do.'

Deborah Joy Winans

FamilyRememberYouKnowNeverLord

I think I must be the only British actor who's played both Stalin and Trotsky. I need to play Lenin so I can make it a triptych.

Brian Cox

ThinkI CanPlayActorNeedBritish

I am grateful to have spent 25 years at the 'International Herald Tribune' - a newspaper where I had unstinting support in being able to express myself freely and honestly.

Suzy Menkes

MyselfGratefulI AmSupportYears

Science has become politicized, and that's an embarrassment.

Seth MacFarlane

ScienceBecomeEmbarrassment

I grew up when 'Schoolhouse Rock' taught millions of American kids how a bill becomes a law.

Tim Griffin

LawAmericanRockUpKidsHow

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