Margo Jefferson Quotes

Yes, for blacks, racism functions without the actual presence of whites, just as for whites it functions without the actual presence of blacks! Beliefs, conventions, history do the work.

Margo Jefferson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 17, 1947

Topics

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I'm a conservative Republican. I have been since I was 15 years old and participated in the 'Goldwater for President' campaign in 1964.

John Bolton

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I'm not somebody that thinks about destiny and fate, but I don't walk away from it when something unfolds.

Angelina Jolie

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Often a performance can be judged not by a movie's strongest moment but by its weakest, especially when it's the picture's crucial scene.

Steve Erickson

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I stand before you today to repudiate the ridiculous notion that the American people will not vote for qualified candidates simply because he is not white or because she is not a male.

Shirley Chisholm

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Well I think fundamentally, what I think surprises me is the creationist movement, and the notion that somehow you can't believe in God if you believe in evolution. But I don't think there's anything in the Bible which prevents a recognition that evolution is a highly plausible way that we came to be here.

Robert Winston

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Our relationship with Egypt is very, very important. And I would want them to remain an ally. I don't want to see that official status change.

Mitt Romney

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Architecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity lies in the realm of the significance.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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'Ralph's Party' was supposed to be a psychological thriller, but I fell in love with all my characters and wanted only the best for them.

Lisa Jewell

LoveBestPartyOnlyWantedThem

You go up for hundreds, thousands of roles, and you get told no, no, no, so many times.

Chloe Grace Moretz

YouGoUpGetManyRoles

I wanted to make sure that if somebody special did come along, I was the kind of man that a woman like her would deserve.

Brantley Gilbert

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Authority is mainly a moral power; therefore, it must first call upon the conscience, that is, upon the duty that each person has to contribute willingly to the common good.

Pope John XXIII

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Few things are as sacred and as fundamental to Oklahomans as the constitutional rights of free speech and the free exercise of religion.

Scott Pruitt

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