Aja Naomi King Quotes

When I was younger, it was harder for me to find a black eyeliner that would actually show up on my skin. Being a dark-skinned woman, when you find something that actually shows up on your face, you love it even more.

Aja Naomi King

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Ossie Davis is one of my heroes for civil rights and things like that.

Joe R. Lansdale

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A lot of the fighters will say you'll know if a fighter's won or lost just by a fighter's eyes - whether they're scared of the other person.

Joel Edgerton

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The Chinese use every spare bit of an animal: cow lungs, pig ears, chicken feet, duck blood.

Jennifer Lee

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At first, you can play into the naivete that people think you have because you don't dress well. They almost give you the benefit of the doubt. But when success comes, that's no longer a good angle, so now you're 'a political animal.'

Jeff Van Gundy

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I had a lot of dates but I decided to stay home and dye my eyebrows.

Andy Warhol

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To me, spirituality is the everyday stuff which we're dealing with all the time. It's not going into some ecstatic trance. It's changing a nappy, or making a meal at the end of a very tiring day.

Stephen Hough

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Every time I sat in a chemistry lesson, I thought, 'What am I doing this for? I don't ever want to be in a job that involves a Bunsen burner.'

Simon Cowell

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If your sense of self is destabilised, to imagine being another becomes pretty easy.

Mohsin Hamid

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In these times, God's people must trust him for rest of body and soul.

David Wilkerson

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You had 42 blacks that ran on the Republican ticket this Cycle, 14 made of them made it to the general election and two of us made it to the House of Representatives. So I think that there is a new movement that needs to have a voice in the Congressional Black Caucus.

Allen West

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Islam is a way of living rather than a way of thinking.

Alija Izetbegovic

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There's definitely pieces of Samoa Joe in the Seth Rollins repertoire, so it's cool he's part of the company now - something you thought you'd never see.

Seth Rollins

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