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Fannie Lou Hamer Quotes

I was forced away from the plantation because I wouldn't go back and withdraw, you know, my literacy test after I had tried to take it. I wouldn't go back.

Fannie Lou Hamer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: american
Birth: October 6, 1917 - March 14, 1977

Topics

You Back Go Know Test Literacy

I think I was identified as a failed president because I wasn't re-elected.

Jimmy Carter

Think President Because I Think

I'm constantly confused about how to dress.

Jill Soloway

Dress Confused How About Constantly

The way we make sense of a realistic text is through the same broad ideological frame as the way we make sense of our social experience or rather, the way we are made sense of by the discourses of our culture.

John Fiske

Culture Experience Way Same Frame

I know it's a rare privilege, but if one can really tackle something in adult life that means that much to you, then it's more rewarding than anything I can imagine.

Andrew Wiles

Life You I Can Know Privilege More

I look thuggish when I shave my head and wear big boots. I walk into a newsagent and people think I'm going to jump the counter.

Robert Smith

Walk People Think Boots Look Jump

I would love to dive into an indie film based on the streets of East Los Angeles where I grew up. If that doesn't come my way soon, I think I just might have to write it myself.

Michael Trevino

Love Myself Think Los Angeles Way

I don't want to be a musician's musician. I want to be an everyone's musician.

Mitski

Want Everyone Musician

The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.

Jean de la Bruyere

Passion Death Sick Long Person Sign

A lot of times when I'm at home kickin' it, I don't even listen to hip hop. I listen to all types of music.

Dr. Dre

Home Music Listen Even Hip Hop Hip

You gotta be able to take criticism if you want to be anything close to great. Even if it's not true. You use that as an advantage for yourself. You can use that negative energy and turn that into an energy that drives you to be something more than you thought you could be. That's one thing I did.

DeMar DeRozan

Great Yourself Negative Energy You

I think that with the success of, like, VH1's 'Behind The Music' and stuff like that, the fact that it's so successful, it's clear that people are interested in rock lives.

Allison Anders

Success Music People Think Rock

My first break was in a Hong Kong movie that I shot in China - I was going out there and working as a western stunt man, if you like, but at the same time in England I was working in daytime soap stuff. Eventually I put the two together.

Scott Adkins

Time Together Man You Hong Kong Out