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Nafessa Williams Quotes

I didn't have a brown-skinned superhero growing up who wore cornrows and who reflected the inner city where I come from in Philadelphia.

Nafessa Williams

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: american
Birth: December 4, 1989

Topics

City Growing Up Philadelphia Growing

My parents have always been very supportive.

Jessica Williams

Parents Always Been Supportive Very

Everyone seems to ask me the same 10 questions, and high on the list is, 'What pans should I be cooking with and why?'

Cooking Me Questions Why Ask High

There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.

Failure Mistakes Mistake Learn Save

I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them.

Wisdom Day I Am Me Feet Artist

I think I'm always adopting a persona. That's how I look at pop music. I don't feel like I have to be myself. I feel like I have to be true to myself, but I don't have to show an exact picture of who I am.

Music Myself I Am Think Picture

The reason I fight is to provide for my family, and I cannot risk having that taken away.

Robert Whittaker

Family Fight Risk Reason Away Taken

Our son is in school now. You know, he's six-and-a-half and so a big chunk of the day is taken up by school. So I'm hoping that I'll be able to certainly take him to school in the morning, maybe pick him up in the afternoon and come back to work.

Work Morning Son Day School You

I still see the world as a place of bitter irony and black humour, failed hopes, dashed plans. I hope to make my work sparer, to outgrow my desire to show off.

Work Hope World Black Place Desire

Charter schools are not a panacea.

Panacea Charter Schools Schools

Maybe I'm secretly in my soul a method actor.

Poppy Montgomery

Soul My Soul Actor Maybe Method

I remember the cover of this one L'Amour book showed a guy on horseback, leading a pack horse across a creek in the snow. Something about that cover - all I wanted to do was drift the high lonesome on horseback.

Snow Book Horse Remember Drift High

I was home schooled in high school but was definitely the nerd in middle school.

Nicole Gale Anderson

Home School High School High Middle

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