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Geoffrey Canada Quotes

Movies portray men as tough guys.

Geoffrey Canada

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: american
Birth: January 13, 1952

Topics

Men Tough Movies Guys Portray

I mean, I grew up with pretty down-to-earth, atheist parents, but I was born a Pisces.

Melissa Auf der Maur

Parents Born Atheist Mean Up Pretty

I would be an activist but never a politician. As an activist, nobody owns you.

You Nobody Never Politician Would

For years following the death of my mother, I wanted to write about her. I started writing what I thought of as personal essays about growing up as her child, but I never could finish any of them. I think I was too close to that loss, and too eager to try and resolve things, to make her death make sense.

Mother Death Child Growing Up Think

You have to do what you feel comfortable with.

Feel You Comfortable

I mean, when you've had a problem in your past, whether it's attributed directly to high cholesterol or not, you want to lower your cholesterol. You want to eat healthy. You want to feel healthy. You want to have a little more energy.

Past Energy Feel Problem You Want

My mother was a Bible student, and when I was a youngster, both my mother and father would say, 'If people would only live by the Golden Rule, there wouldn't be the problems that there are.' In other words, 'treat people the way you want to be treated.' If somebody mistreats you, two wrongs won't make a right.

Father Mother Live Words People You

I am really into how words sound out loud, so I was always the kid who would, like, read the page of the book to herself in her room over and over and over. And Raymond Carver is great for that. Tobias Wolff is an author who is really good for that as well.

Good Great Words I Am Book Page

You know, if you meet someone for the first time, they're not going to bite you.

Time Someone You Know Meet First

I've decided to pick my moment to retire very carefully - in about 200 years time.

Time Moment Years Retire Pick Very

My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in academia.

Life Good Father Mother Most Very

The editor of a newspaper, who is an old friend, asked me to write a column. According to her, I cracked lame jokes all the time and read voraciously.

Friend Time Me Newspaper Write Old

Selling millions of records is great, but at the end of the day it really doesn't bring peace.

Great Day Peace End Of The Day End

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