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Margo Jefferson Quotes

I was nearing the end of childhood when I started to pay real attention to jazz singers. Women excelled as jazz singers; they surpassed most of the men. Black women excelled as jazz singers; they surpassed most of the whites.

Margo Jefferson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Women Men Childhood Black End Jazz

I think that there are changes that have occurred in technology that make is that more people can have the same level of information that I have. My advantage is that I'm very good at interpreting the information.

Jim Cramer

Good Technology People Think Changes

Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Robert Orben

Time Time Flies You Up Flies

Selling out is when you do something that you don't naturally want to do.

Robert Glasper

You Selling Want Out Something

I wrote 'Bamboozled' to expose and uncover the lies liberals have used for generations to exploit minorities for the vote.

Angela McGlowan

Vote Used Generations Lies Uncover

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.

Simone de Beauvoir

I Am Accept Infinity Am Incapable

What I have appreciated about the 'Call of Duty' games is the scale of production. It's not an indie game. It's not trying to be an indie game. But I've genuinely been pretty consistently blown away by, wow, what an effort has gone into this.

Trent Reznor

Effort Game Trying Duty Games Gone

Focus on doing the right things instead of a bunch of things.

Mike Krieger

Focus Doing Right Things Instead

The lawyer refused to tell me my brother's name, and my colleagues started a betting pool. The leading candidate: John Travolta. I secretly hoped for a literary descendant of Henry James - someone more talented than I: someone brilliant without even trying.

Mona Simpson

Brother Me Lawyer Colleagues Name

I grew up on Section 8 housing, food stamps, welfare, and dealing with social services. I never had a Christmas. I never had a birthday.

Logic

Birthday Food Christmas Never Up

I have written about some truly great writers - John Steinbeck, Robert Frost, and William Faulkner. Faulkner and Frost were the very peaks of American poetry and fiction in the 20th century.

Jay Parini

Great Poetry American Fiction Frost

Because I used to go and watch him rehearsing for pantomime, and I have adopted some of those priciples, like try to be on time, learn your script, how he approach it, etc.

Dennis Brown

Time Learn Go Try Him Watch

It's a bit odd to have a daughter who sounds American.

David Thewlis

Daughter American Odd Who Sounds