Aja Naomi King Quotes

Back when people couldn't read, other people would take newspapers and turn them into theater so that people would know what was going on in the world. That is a powerful thing.

Aja Naomi King

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PeopleWorldPowerfulBackKnow

If you don't toot your own horn, it goeth untooted.

Joe R. Lansdale

YouOwnYourHorn

When I come out of the box, I don't come out of the box as racial.

Jim Brown

BoxRacialOutCome

Because everyone grows up together in my small hometown, everyone knows everyone else. And there are such large extended families that a lot of people are related to each other.

Jesmyn Ward

TogetherPeopleSmallHometownUp

My cousins and I used to play Beatle wives. We all wanted to be married to Paul, but John was O.K. too. None of us wanted Ringo. Or even worse, George.

Ann Hood

PlayCousinsUsedUsWorseEven

I am a humanist. I am for nice, easy balance.

Meryl Streep

BalanceI AmEasyNiceAmHumanist

When I interviewed profilers in 1984 in the basement of the FBI Academy at Quantico, VA., there were just four of them - Roger Depue, John Douglas, Roy Hazelwood, and Robert Ressler.

Ronald Kessler

FBIJustFourBasementThemAcademy

The problems of a period are the existential crises of what can be but hasn't yet been resolved; and regardless of how seriously we take that word 'resolved,' if there were not some new possibility, there would be no crisis - there would be only despair.

Rollo May

ProblemsNewCrisisSeriouslyTake

For me, writing is just processing.

Mary Lambert

MeWritingJustProcessing

Whenever there is news of a terrible shooting, I wonder why America has so miserably failed to enact even common-sense gun legislation.

Jon Meacham

GunAmericaWonderNewsWhyEven

Paula Deen is a human being. She deserves forgiveness and a chance at redemption as much as anyone else. America is about redemption.

Don Lemon

ForgivenessChanceAmericaRedemption

Russians aren't perfect. Their politics are messed up, and they keep going through self-defeating economic cycles. But I have a lot of respect for Russia, and a lot of love for Russians.

Chris Hadfield

LoveRespectKeep GoingPoliticsUp

I'm busier than I've ever been, but you can go through the lists of people who are bang up there one minute, and then just disappear.

Chris Hemsworth

PeopleYouGoThroughUpDisappear

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