Natasha Trethewey Quotes

I think that it's hard enough being an adolescent and wanting so much to fit in with your peers, your schoolmates, and to erase any sign of difference, to be part of the group. And being biracial but also being black in a predominately white school marked me as different.

Natasha Trethewey

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 26, 1966

Topics

SchoolMeBlackThinkEnoughWhite

I first came to Glasgow with no money and slept in a workman's hut on a building site.

Jimmy Savile

MoneyBuildingFirstHutSleptCame

Our people are excited about building solutions, and it's rewarding to see how much fun Netscape employees have doing something they think is relevant and important.

Jim Barksdale

FunPeopleBuildingThinkEmployees

I don't think the idea of homosexuality is really taboo any more. Our culture is evolving. This is an exciting time to be living.

Andrew Lang

TimeCultureThinkLivingMoreIdea

I don't want to waste my life by being lazy.

Mawra Hocane

LifeMy LifeLazyWantBeingWaste

If we are to make life into a pleasure rather than a struggle, then I would suggest that we have to start with our own mental attitudes.

Tom Hodgkinson

LifeStruggleStartPleasureOwn

You know, I was a school rebel. Whatever they said do, I didn't do. I was totally anti-everything.

Roger Daltrey

SchoolYouRebelKnowSaidWhatever

I grew up as an athlete doing judo, so I didn't really have a conventional, feminine body type.

Ronda Rousey

DoingBodyAthleteUpFeminineType

To think that we as a publisher (i.e. people who have never actually MADE a game) can have a realistic impact on a project that a team of experts is slaving away on full time for 2 years is a bit arrogant.

Mike Wilson

TimePeopleTeamGameThinkImpact

I think people recognize I'm very sincere in what I say.

Michele Bachmann

PeopleThinkSaySincereRecognize

Every mom in a minivan, every person commuting - anytime they are on the road, they should be able to go into driver mode and give a ride to a neighbor. That's how we achieve scale.

Logan Green

RideMomRoadPersonAchieveGo

Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire.

Lord Byron

LoveLightFireSparkHeavenEarth

Usually when attorneys are assembling a jury, they're just looking for sheep that are easily impressed.

Johnny Kelly

LookingSheepJuryJust LookingJust

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