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Ralph Abernathy Quotes

Not only are a voteless people a hopeless people. A non-producing people are hopeless also.

Ralph Abernathy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: american
Birth: March 11, 1926 - April 17, 1990

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People Hopeless Only Also

Physical hunger and physical poverty is something I could only imagine. I've been poor when I was in China... As kids we never had to starve, but just didn't have enough meat, enough rice.

Enough Poverty Poor Never Meat Rice

I'm not one of these people who say how much better American drama is than English. I find it mostly too American, except for The Sopranos, which I think is the best thing.

Best People Think Better American

You have to live in order to have something to write about - you get caught up in moviemaking and celebrities and money, and it's very intoxicating, but it doesn't give you what you need as a writer. You have to do something else for that.

John Patrick Shanley

Live Money You Write Need Up

After I got to Hollywood, I resented that I didn't get a crack at more dramatic roles because I photographed so beautifully.

Hollywood More Dramatic Get Crack

The fate of your paycheck, the fate of your small business should not rest on what side of the bed a Washington bureaucrat wakes up on.

Business Small Rest Fate Washington

There's something about being in front of a live audience that's fun. It's a really interesting, very electric, very alive, and intense experience, and you can't get it anywhere else. And I've been doing it since I was 23, so it's part of my being - it's part of my fabric as a person.

Live Experience Fun Interesting You

I'm a working journalist. I'm interested in all points of view, and I draw conclusions based on facts, not just on opinions.

Facts View Opinions Conclusions Just

I do not see any beauty in self-restraint.

Beauty See Self-Restraint Any

If I had a time machine I would go back 30 years and show up at my grandmother's apartment before the gargantuan meals she would serve and I would help her.

Time Help Back Go Grandmother She

I've got to come into the day enjoying myself and go from there.

Myself Day Go Got Come Enjoying

I'm not suggesting our music is the only music, but I am suggesting that there are certain elements in America's culture that are so precious that it would be a shame for them to go down the drain.

Music Culture I Am America Down Go

Once I thought that if I just had enough in the bank, if I had enough fame, that it would be all right. But I'm a human being like everyone else. I'm not exempt.

Thought Enough Fame Human Right

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