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Patricia Hill Collins Quotes

Black women's feelings of responsibility for nurturing the children in their own extended family networks have stimulated a more generalized ethic of care where black women feel accountable to all the black community's children.

Patricia Hill Collins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: educator
Nationality: american
Birth: May 1, 1948

Topics

Family Women Community Children Care

I knew through the surgeries that he was on my side and that this wasn't something where I was gonna feel less of a woman, because my husband wasn't gonna let that happen.

Angelina Jolie

Woman Husband Feel Happen Side Knew

One has to change one's life. Maybe this is easier for people who have nothing to do than for those who have something to do.

Jean-Luc Godard

Life Change People Nothing Something

When I did comedy I made fun of myself. If there was a buffoon, I played the buffoon.

Sid Caesar

Myself Fun Comedy Made Did Played

When I was 15 or 16 playing in groups, we used to sit in the car and try to write the lyrics down as a song was playing, and we'd assign each person a verse, you know: 'I'm going to do the first one. You go for the second one.' And then sometimes you'd wait an hour for it to come on again so you could finish it up.

Tom Petty

Car Wait Song You Down Person

I moved to Queens, New York, when I was seven and a half. I went to middle school in a foreign country, but I had so many different kinds of Americans push me along and encourage me. I was very odd. I didn't talk very well. We were poor, and we didn't have any connections, but people showed up and pushed me along.

Min Jin Lee

School New York People Me Push New

A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.

Jean de la Bruyere

Good Man Wise Speak Talk Modest

Marriage was never my goal, because I've never been very traditional.

Chrissy Teigen

Marriage Goal Never Because Been

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

Bob Dylan

Blame You Will Exist Who Then

At 21, my career took a comedic turn when I was cast in a new Broadway play called 'Brooklyn Boy,' by Donald Margulies, which was equal parts funny and sad. I realized that the more seriously I expressed my character's feelings, the funnier the scene became.

Ari Graynor

Funny Character Sad Career Brooklyn

I feel terribly misunderstood; I feel terribly misunderstood.

Antony Gormley

Feel Misunderstood I Feel Terribly

It's almost impossible to have a constructive conversation about health-care reform in Arkansas without passions rising and folks taking sides.

Asa Hutchinson

Impossible Conversation Sides Rising

You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.

Pierre Bonnard

Yourself Painting You Cannot Invent