Natasha Trethewey Quotes

In the early 1970s in Atlanta, I attended what had formerly been an all-white school but had become a black school after integration and white flight. Perhaps because of this, the teachers created a curriculum that included a focus on African American literature and history year-round, not just in February.

Natasha Trethewey

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

HistoryFocusSchoolFebruaryBlack

'Magic' is a word that's too often misused in the record industry.

Jimmy Iovine

MagicIndustryWordMisusedOften

We can be civil. We can still be friends, and be Democrats and Republicans, and have different views.

Joel Osteen

FriendsDemocratsDifferentStill

I have always loved to create pieces that are special, unique. It's very important to me that the dress means something to someone. I've no real interest in making something that's an everyday item.

Jenny Packham

DressMeLovedSomeoneUniqueReal

Guilt is an emotion that is never very far away from Rick Grimes. He's a man that shoulders the responsibility, and it's one of the forces that keeps pushing him on.

Andrew Lincoln

ResponsibilityManGuiltFar Away

For two centuries, the South has feared a takeover by blacks or the feds. In Obama, they have both.

Maureen Dowd

TwoTakeoverBothBlacksFeared

I would say my strengths are vision and strategy.

John T. Chambers

VisionStrategySayStrengthsWould

I can look back at different times in my life when I felt I could not find my way out of whatever it was. I'm not necessarily talking about marriage, but I wanted to pack it in. I wanted to disappear. A lot of that has to do with being in the public eye.

Amy Grant

LifeMarriageEyeMy LifeTalking

If things aren't going well, music is what I turn to so I can get away from it, to take my mind somewhere else.

Tom Scholz

MusicMindI CanTurnTakeGoing

Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.

Michel de Montaigne

SavageBeingMostOurDespise

When a profit-seeking company proposes to take citizens' private land away for its own gain, people should stand up for their rights.

Louis Bacon

PeopleStand UpStandLandCompany

I don't have any angel blood, as far as I know.

Dominic Sherwood

AngelKnowBloodFarAnyAs Far As

It's hard to think of another body of work that is more universally beloved - I don't think I've ever met someone who has encountered 'Calvin and Hobbes' without falling for them.

Anthony Marra

WorkThinkSomeoneBodyMoreHard

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