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Margot Lee Shetterly Quotes

A lot of times, we talk about black people as if being black is all they are. They get up, go to work... and are as complex and interesting and variable as any other group of people. We don't often capture that or write about it.

Margot Lee Shetterly

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: 1969

Topics

Work People Black Interesting Group

My entire life, socially, was all around the Maggie era. That was the great challenge as a Sex Pistol was how to deal with Margaret Thatcher. I think we did rather good.

John Lydon

Life Good Great Challenge Think Sex

The relationship between WordPress and Tumblr has always been pretty friendly: Tumblr's own blog used to be on WP, WordPress.com supports Tumblr as a Publicize option alongside Twitter and Facebook, our Akismet team sends them daily emails of splogs on the service, and there's healthy import and export traffic both ways.

Matt Mullenweg

Daily Relationship Service Team Own

Growing up, I was always really inspired by Disney, and I had a great love of everything they created. My mum was huge fan, and she used to collect stills, and so they were all around the house, and we very much grew up on the early Disney films.

Stella McCartney

Love Great Growing Up Early House

In our house, the name for all athletic shoes - any that weren't dress or 'church' shoes - was 'tennis shoes,' or 'tennies.'

Steve Rushin

Shoes Dress Name Church House Our

I've often wondered if the trade-off for growing up in the relative newness and freshness of the West Coast was befuddlement when it comes to historical preservation. We don't have many old things, and we don't really know what to do with the few that are around when our default response is to compost or field burn.

Mary Pilon

Growing Up Growing Know Burn Old Up

I was like a Borscht Belt comedian trapped in the body of a 6-year-old. I was channeling Jackie Mason at 7.

Josh Gad

Body Trapped Belt Like Comedian

Those that have received care here in Des Moines at the VA center or the VA hospital here have said that they do receive good care. However, it's getting into the system - the wait periods. We have to do something about that. The care here has been good. We're not seeing that in other states.

Joni Ernst

Good Wait Care Seeing Said Hospital

I believe that tax dollars used to create a new school of engineering for Florida State University, when there is already a successful partnership in place with Florida A&M University, is counterproductive to increasing engineering graduates.

Corrine Brown

School Believe Partnership Create

I mean, it takes a large entourage to put on a tour. You can't have 'em sittin' around.

Clint Black

You Mean Tour Large Around Takes

We live in an era where pizzas show up faster than the police.

Claude Chabrol

Live Police Up Where Show Era

I know just how often people get told 'no' to their brilliant ideas - not just most of the time, but 90 percent of the time.

Brian Grazer

Time People Ideas Know Brilliant

So that would be a classic mixed message to young women: you should look a certain way that's going to destroy your reproductive system and your sexual appetite, but at the same time, you should be interested in sex!

Susie Bright

Women Time You Look Sex Young