Margo Jefferson Quotes

Ralph Ellison's essays were models for me when I began my life as a critic. Slipping cultural yokes and violating aesthetic boundaries, he made criticism high-stakes work, especially for a black critic.

Margo Jefferson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I've never felt the constraints of social acceptability.

Joanna Lumley

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Advertising obviously helps with awareness, but if you look at some of the most successful companies, they're actually not generally ad-driven when it comes to customer adoption.

John Collison

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Taste and love are not the servants of the will. Love is and must be free. It rises from the heart like perfume from a flower.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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For me, hip-hop was a mirror when young-adult books were not. I could see myself in a Nas song more than I could see myself in a book.

Angie Thomas

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But so far I have the feeling that the chances are there to repeat last year's season.

Roger Federer

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There is something urbane, stylish, and worldly about owning a cocktail shaker.

Roger Stone

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What we're dealing with is institutional, and unless systems are put into place that will ensure accountability, we can expect racially biased police practices to continue.

Michelle Alexander

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The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

Michael Korda

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I have been recognized from 'Mad Men,' and it's so cool when that happens because I am so proud to be a part of the show.

Jay R. Ferguson

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I used to get butterflies when I'd see big dudes. I don't get butterflies no more.

Deandre Ayton

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You can hold your Bitcoin in Ripple. We want to be agnostic to any currency, whether that be a virtual currency, political currencies, or peer-to-peer currencies.

Chris Larsen

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I think there's a part, just a part of comedians, that is still childlike.

Bob Newhart

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