Iyanla Vanzant Quotes

At birth, we are like cartilage - soft, flexible tissue. By the same natural process by which cartilage becomes hard bone, the soft, tender heart of an innocent child can become hardened by the circumstances into which she is born.

Iyanla Vanzant

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 13, 1953

Topics

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We as men, in particular black men, are constantly supported, nurtured, forgiven, apologized for, led, followed and coddled by black women, and they get very little in return.

Jesse Williams

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I love how a story can help someone discuss something they otherwise would not.

Jennifer Lynch

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I love Argentina because I was born there, and there are some gorgeous places to visit there.

Mauro Icardi

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The last thing I ever want to do is not be here with my team.

Matt Harvey

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Plays are wonderfully different than short stories, first because it's a story that's on a stage, but there's a different sort of tension that appears on stage - you get to see your characters in a different way - like with lights.

Amy Bloom

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Knopf is solidly profitable, and that is how I intend to keep it.

Sonny Mehta

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'Free the Gang,' that's my favorite song because it's so real. All my music is real, it's authentic, but it's something about that song that I love.

Shy Glizzy

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During the summer of 2009, conservative activists turned up the heat on Democratic politicians to protest the innovation-destroying, liberty-usurping Obamacare mandate. In the summer of 2012, it's squishy Republican politicians who deserve the grassroots flames.

Michelle Malkin

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You can't expect to score lots of goals in every game; football isn't like that.

Luka Modric

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I have a sister and her name is Mimsy, like from 'Alice in Wonderland,' so we've got some strange names in our family.

Brie Larson

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I love music. I love every kind of extreme sort of music, and many different genres, and if I were to have to dedicate myself to just one kind of genre, I would feel kind of gypped. I'd be like, man, I wish I could do this or that. And really all it takes is trying it out.

Phil Anselmo

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I told everybody that I was going to be an actress in Hollywood one day. People looked at me like I was crazy.

Paula Garces

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