Ilyasah Shabazz Quotes

We have been shaken by the deaths of Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, and Tamir Rice - shaken, but not sufficiently unsettled. We must contextualize those losses, force our neighbors to become so deeply disturbed by what has occurred that they, too, are inspired to act to change the system.

Ilyasah Shabazz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 22, 1962

Topics

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I've got to be active in life, and it's the same when I'm doing stunts in a movie: I'll do anything.

Jeremy Renner

LifeDoingActiveSameAnythingGot

I grew up in L.A. in a school that was diverse, but it was not really integrated, so I didn't ever fully fit in with the black girls or the white girls or the Latina girls.

Meghan Markle

SchoolBlackWhiteLatinaUpFit

Pound Ridge is about five miles from our country house. When you go every weekend for the last ten years without fail, well, that starts to feel like a home.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

HomeFeelWeekendYouHouseCountry

The NBA has the best point guards in the world, so it is important that I come ready to play every night.

Steve Nash

BestWorldNightReadyPlayPoint

I've never had a game plan. It's just if something comes along and it feels right in the moment.

Toni Collette

MomentGamePlanNeverRightAlong

I regret what happened. I saw no other possibility to achieve my goal. It was not hooliganism.

Mathias Rust

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Putting together a sustainable budget requires that we all work together, that we focus our scarce resources on key priorities, and that we strengthen our capacity to deliver the best product we can for the American people. And that takes money.

Roy Blunt

WorkBestMoneyFocusTogetherKey

The reason why you were allowed to get away with that in the '60s and '70s is because this country's racist administrative policies were such that rich white kids were getting exemptions. I said no exemptions.

Montel Williams

RichYouWhiteCountrySaidWhy

All I did was pray to God, every day. In prison camp, the main prayer was, 'Get me home alive, God, and I'll seek you and serve you.' I came home, got wrapped up in the celebration, and forgot about the hundreds of promises I'd made to God.

Louis Zamperini

HomeGodDayPrayerMePromises

I do not believe that the government is in any position to say exactly how every single business and every single activity shall reach those performances.

Dixie Lee Ray

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Folk music was out there. Clubs were springing up and they were hot with the college kids.

Dick Smothers

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Music is funny. I shouldn't even ever talk about music, because you can have all the ideas in your head, and it never goes exactly the way that you think it's gonna go.

Alicia Keys

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