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Yvonne Orji Quotes

On TV, as in life, white folks are allowed to make mistakes, but usually, black people aren't.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: nigerian
Birth: December 2, 1983

Topics

Life Mistakes People Black White TV

There's a stage where you're desperate to get a job, and you're waving your hands in a sea of nothingness, going, 'Please, please, please! I'm over here - give me a job!'

Sea Job Me Hands You Stage

Raymond Shaw is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life.

Life My Life Human Human Being Being

The key for me with 'Star Wars' is to stay in their world. Don't get in the way of what is already known and what works. I think of the basic nature of the filmmaking process that worked so well for the original trilogy. No stylistic flights of fancy for the sake of showing off. Tell the story, get the shot, get the performances, and move on.

Nature Me World Story Think Key

I've never changed the way I live. I still walk the streets; I don't give a damn. And everyone's very nice to me. But this new idea of being famous for no reason at all? I can't actually get my head round it.

Live Walk Me Famous New Nice

Exclusive will not be published in book format.

Book Will Exclusive Published Format

I know when I used to chemically straighten mine, I did it because I wasn't comfortable with my natural hair. I thought it was too poofy, too kinky. So for me, personally, when I started wearing it natural, it felt like I was blossoming because I was letting go of all the dead hair and all the parts of me that had rejected my natural state.

Amandla Stenberg

Me Hair Thought Letting Go Go Know

Henry David Thoreau was an oddball job quitter and ne'er-do-well who evolved into the bearded sage of literature, natural history, and civil liberties.

History Job Literature Natural Sage

Every world leader is trying to figure out who Mr. Trump is, especially if he's elected president, and they want to know what his foreign policies would be. Russia is no exception.

Dmitri Alperovitch

Leader World Trying Know Want Out

My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher's kid.

Father Kid Preacher Minister

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Death Man Existence Different Quite

The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions.

Business Ocean Stand Generation Land

At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely. I still wore the blue dress and the blouse the orphanage provided. They made me look like an overgrown lummox.

Girl Dress Blue Me Body Look

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