Margo Williams quote: "I let her take control. The older kids listen to her. Sometimes, I feel like it's not my place. My parents didn't get divorced, so I don't know the emotions. She's there to give them the love and cuddling. All the kids listen to her."

It's just really gross to see kids who don't do a thing, while the grandpas and uncles are working h...
MARGO WILLIAMS

My mind is stuffed with quotes. Lines, couplets, paragraphs, stanzas; Bessie Smith, Stevie Smith, Ti...
MARGO JEFFERSON

Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it pure ig...
MARGO KAUFMAN

I would be willing to bet that if one day a woman walked barefoot to the moon and back and a man cle...
MARGO KAUFMAN

Even criticism is more interesting when the writer's authority does not only come through this o...
MARGO JEFFERSON

Depression is so treacherous - it can be so alluring as well as punishing. After all, it's yours...
MARGO JEFFERSON

Every mind is a clutter of memories, images, inventions and age-old repetitions. It can be a ghetto,...
MARGO JEFFERSON

Black Power was really a major challenge to the social privileges and structures of the kind of priv...
MARGO JEFFERSON

I do not regret the years I spent reading the traditional canon of white male writers in school. I d...
MARGO JEFFERSON

Fashion for my mother was about asserting and demonstrating you had aesthetics, tastes, sensibility,...
MARGO JEFFERSON

Michael Jackson loved epic symbols. In his shows and his videos, he always destroyed or salvaged wor...
MARGO JEFFERSON

From my experience, the best advisors help in three ways: encourage you to look at the problem or op...
MARGO GEORGIADIS

Michael Jackson was one of popular culture's greatest artists. Nobody danced better. Few sang mo...
MARGO JEFFERSON

In many ways, everything about my upbringing decreed that I wouldn't write a memoir because in t...
MARGO JEFFERSON

Since pre-Emancipation, black 'females' have had to fight for the whites-only privilege of b...
MARGO JEFFERSON

The piece I most love wearing is Mother's gold brocade cocktail dress with matching jacket... It...
MARGO JEFFERSON

We Americans are childish about our celebrities and icons. We worship, then we denounce; we identify...
MARGO JEFFERSON

Consumers have a different path to purchase. They don't shop less than they used to; it is just ...
MARGO GEORGIADIS

In general, fashion is decorative, it's protective, it acknowledges that the world does involve ...
MARGO JEFFERSON

I would certainly say that my life, and perhaps human life in general, follows an intricate pattern ...
MARGO JEFFERSON

Clever of me to become a critic. We critics scrutinize and show off to a higher end. For a greater g...
MARGO JEFFERSON

I'm a very promiscuous reader. My dad's a big science fiction fan, so I'd read 'Dune...
MARGO LANAGAN

The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
MARGO KAUFMAN

Remarriage is an excellent test of just how amicable your divorce was.
MARGO KAUFMAN

I once complained to my father that I didn't seem to be able to do things the same way other people ...
MARGO KAUFMAN

Popular music is one endless love song that, I suspect, the basically solitary Ella Fitzgerald appro...
MARGO JEFFERSON

How on earth do people imagine we equip children for life if we never show them the sorts of issues ...
MARGO LANAGAN

I first wrote about Michael Jackson in the 1980s. His skin was growing paler, his features thinner, ...
MARGO JEFFERSON

Sometimes it feels as if the artist hasn't done the real work of engaging with the material. Fil...
MARGO JEFFERSON

I was nearing the end of childhood when I started to pay real attention to jazz singers. Women excel...
MARGO JEFFERSON

'Melancholy' is prettier than 'depression'; it connotes a kind of nocturnal grace. M...
MARGO JEFFERSON

New Yorkers know how to borrow wildly. You know, Louis Armstrong was not a New York musician. He wen...
MARGO JEFFERSON

Noir is a court of human relations, and some crimes are beyond legal restitution.
MARGO JEFFERSON

I know that there are people who believe that if they get to the stage where life is absolutely into...
MARGO MACDONALD

Once avant-garde artists receive official recognition, they start a double life. In one, they inspir...
MARGO JEFFERSON

Like dancers with choreography or actors with scripts, jazz singers could take material that was kno...
MARGO JEFFERSON

No society ever rights a wrong without finding a new one to put in its place
MARGO JEFFERSON

I would be willing to bet that if one day a woman walked barefoot to the moon and back and a man cle...
MARGO KAUFMAN

You can see and smell the habitat. It's a very pungent perfume.
MARGO STAHL

They had the foresight and donated the land.
MARGO STAHL

As the years pass, I find that writers who were once central to me aren't anymore. I revered Yea...
MARGO JEFFERSON

The percentage of fat in this product here is almost 50 percent fat. But it's turkey. But because it...
MARGO RODRIGUEZ

Life is happening so make it happen before it's happened
MARGO VADER

It's not enough any more for the government to publish dietary guidelines and point their finger at ...
MARGO WOOTAN

I work in this area, and I don't even know what some of those things are referring to.
MARGO WOOTAN

Schools can make money without selling junk food.
MARGO WOOTAN

The definition is out of date and out of sync with current nutritional concerns for children,
MARGO WOOTAN

It's as important for children to know how to prevent heart disease, cancer and diabetes as it is fo...
MARGO WOOTAN

This means that the policy effectively does not address high schools at all because it won't affect ...
MARGO WOOTAN

It's impressive that Kraft was able to do two 100 percent whole-grain cookies.
MARGO WOOTAN

[Communities that do step up to reverse poor nutrition trends often face considerable opposition fro...
MARGO WOOTAN

This is a good step toward reducing artery-clogging fat in french fries, but it doesn't make french ...
MARGO WOOTAN

The money from soda contracts comes out of children's and parents' pockets. Coke, Pepsi, and other j...
MARGO WOOTAN

New Dawn Coming
MARGO TIMMINS

How different other families were, the shape of them, the things they presumed, the children that gr...
MARGO LANAGAN

My aids, or my commands to the horse, should not be visible to the naked eye. It's kind of like when...
MARGO DEWKETT

It was great that we came from behind and had some adversity. It was a big win for us.
MARGO JONKER

It had 822 calories and 32 grams of fat. So the calorie content was much higher than the bacon doubl...
MARGO RODRIGUEZ

Disco-era nutrition standards don't make sense in 2006.
MARGO WOOTAN

Privilege is provisional. It can be denied, withheld, offered grudgingly, and summarily withdrawn.
MARGO JEFFERSON

You were not supposed to show off in Negroland because you are supposed to be perfectly decorous and...
MARGO JEFFERSON

Growing old happens but growing up needn't happen
MARGO VADER

I was born into the Chicago branch of Negroland. My father was a doctor, a pediatrician, and for som...
MARGO JEFFERSON

Sweet Jane.
MARGO TIMMINS

Thank God for jazz. It gave black women what film and theater gave white women: a well-lighted space...
MARGO JEFFERSON

If you were a successful upper-middle-class Negro girl in the 1950s and '60s, you were, in pract...
MARGO JEFFERSON

A Negro girl could never be purely innocent. The vengeful Race Fairy always lurked nearby; your pare...
MARGO JEFFERSON

There's this assumption that all children have the luxury of a childhood where their innocence i...
MARGO LANAGAN

Wilson was a consummate entertainer. He truly loved to perform, and when he took the stage, he would...
MARGO LEWIS

I need to acknowledge the toll certain parts of my life are taking on me. I have to do that, even if...
MARGO JEFFERSON

I think it's too easy to recount your unhappy memories when you write about yourself. You bask i...
MARGO JEFFERSON

At the very least, noir offers an alternate reality - moments of real passion, a bleak code of honor...
MARGO JEFFERSON

I think the most harmful belief passed on to me - not always directly - was the belief that whatever...
MARGO JEFFERSON

Negroland is my name for a small region of Negro America where residents were sheltered by a certain...
MARGO JEFFERSON

Many say that no real avant-garde - which I'll define as a combative group of free-thinking arti...
MARGO JEFFERSON

heavily tattooed women can be said to control and subvert the ever-present 'male gaze' by forcing me...
MARGO DEMELLO

Several elementary school teachers had described me as a 'future authoress or poetess.' Moth...
MARGO JEFFERSON

I found literary idols in Adrienne Kennedy, Nella Larsen, and Ntozake Shange, writers who'd dare...
MARGO JEFFERSON

Our officers worked tirelessly to ensure evidence is preserved and the birds are treated for their w...
MARGO CASTORENA

We found all the training paraphernalia, boots, spurs and all the equipment that they need to train ...
MARGO CASTORENA

If your laptop gets stolen, they still can't get to your data.
MARGO DAY

There's a process of educating both the customer and the partners that serve them on the kinds of so...
MARGO DAY

I am one of the few people that I know who has done the prevention, intervention and treatment. I so...
MARGO DEANE

I would say since we've been doing it, at least 60 to 70 percent of the people who have completed th...
MARGO DEANE

It's been a combination of issues for us. A lot of it depends on how we do in the circle, but we als...
MARGO JONKER

We played extremely poor in Saturday's game. Defensively, offensively, the whole game was poorly pla...
MARGO JONKER

Kent State is coming from behind and scoring a lot of runs. They are playing confidently. It should ...
MARGO JONKER

We are beating ourselves. We're giving them too much, giving them too many opportunities. We need to...
MARGO JONKER

In order for us to be effective as a pitching staff, we have to get ahead in the count. We have to m...
MARGO JONKER

Obviously it's nice, but I've been fortunate to be in an environment that allows me to succeed. It's...
MARGO JONKER

We'll have live entertainment, music, dancers, anything and everything keeping in the time frame of ...
MARGO JARVIS

There's no doubt from this survey that people think the problems that led to the creation of the Cap...
MARGO FENN

You get a lot more money than you put in - in services and actual mitigation money.
MARGO FENN

This is a town project. It's the towns' call.
MARGO FENN

I know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem, an inconvenience is losing a job. A pr...
MARGO DEWKETT

And their first instinctual reaction is to flee. Everything we do in education is to teach the horse...
MARGO DEWKETT

All of that snorting, it's just like an algebra problem. We're going to give him a job. By giving hi...
MARGO DEWKETT

We've wanted to come back here since the end of last year.
MARGO MUHLBAUER

I thought it was pretty cool. Not many people get a chance to do that.
MARGO MUHLBAUER

I can't think of a better place to end it but Wells Fargo Arena.
MARGO MUHLBAUER

We see each other at dance on Sundays and always talk about the big game. It's not just competition;...
MARGO MUHLBAUER

I've been very fortunate to play with a lot of great players. They always seem to find me on the cou...
MARGO MUHLBAUER

Our second half pressure defense helped us win the game.
MARGO MUHLBAUER

We tried to stay focused after they surprised us with their out-side shooting in the first quarter.
MARGO MUHLBAUER

As the service moved forward toward its powerful climax, the miracles would begin. Kathryn would sud...
MARGO MONG

Not everyone was healed during these services. She would tell those who looked to her for a healing ...
MARGO MONG

... Her gradual ascent to stardom began right here in western Pennsylvania.
MARGO MONG

This is a trigger time for youth to start to obsess about weight and body image.
MARGO MAINE

This is a trigger time for youth to start to obsess about weight and body image. By the beginning of...
MARGO MAINE

It happens to the best of us. When I am in the Scottish Parliament chamber, I often feel the need to...
MARGO MACDONALD

They are fantastic, a real rainbow alliance, with Muslims, Christians and a Jewish player joining to...
MARGO MACDONALD

He was in hospital very near his home in Virginia.
MARGO LEWIS

He was always in demand. He last performed at the end of 2004.
MARGO LEWIS

It's very uplifting to see the response. People are learning about our history and how to care for t...
MARGO STRINGFIELD

We don't know what, if anything, was taken. But it does look like there was thought to this. It was ...
MARGO STRINGFIELD

The beach is Mother Nature's trail. You can walk for 3 miles to the St. Lucie Inlet State Park.
MARGO STAHL

It was supposed to be a very friendly, very self-esteem building environment for women. Compared to ...
MARGO SCHLANGER

If the alternative to a temporary race segregation is a riot, where people get hurt, then yeah, you ...
MARGO SCHLANGER

It's not clear to me that the big loss to women is the loss of a woman justice, it's the loss of a m...
MARGO SCHLANGER

It's got the exact same grams of fat. If we take the calories from fat, which are 30, and divide it ...
MARGO RODRIGUEZ

We're confused because information on a food label is in a different language.
MARGO RODRIGUEZ

He's the Bono of Canada. This sort of work that these guys do, they're not just talking about it all...
MARGO TIMMINS

Everybody wants to change the world. But I guess how we want to change it is a little bit more quiet...
MARGO TIMMINS

It's one of those songs that when we play for an audience it's interesting to see people's reactions...
MARGO TIMMINS

I'd like to see a quiet album and go back to being sparse again, because this album is such a big al...
MARGO TIMMINS

It's not that we don't want to be all over the radio, ... I'd love to have a hit single. However, I ...
MARGO TIMMINS

Every so often in the last 20 years, Hollywood has called, ... And every

MARGO TIMMINS

By 2010, the net reduction in global emissions from Europe meeting the Kyoto Protocol will be only 0...
MARGO THORNING

A cooperative global approach to reducing emission growth is more likely to produce real emissions r...
MARGO THORNING

The findings of our research suggest that an alternative approach (to climate change) is urgently ne...
MARGO THORNING

We need to focus on things like the [Asia Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate], whi...
MARGO THORNING

It'll take months... and potentially years before the ultimate outcome is known. The management rema...
MARGO VIGNOLA

Punishing the prostitute promotes the rape of all women. When prostitution is a crime, the message c...
MARGO ST. JAMES

All the things that you said when you thought I wasn't there,
I just tell them to my corner, 'c...
MARGO T. ROSE

Did you say all that you meant to
Before the curtain closed?
Or did you feel so much more<...
MARGO T. ROSE

My mind is like a little house,
My peers break into.
They rearrange my furniture,
And...
MARGO T. ROSE

It doesn't mean anything;
It doesn't change anything,
Except the way I see myself,
An...
MARGO T. ROSE

I'm still looking for someone
Who said they were here for me,
And I thought I was once the...
MARGO T. ROSE

I know you're feeling worried,
But I promise I'm okay.
You think I'm missing all the fun,<...
MARGO T. ROSE

We met at a cross-roads in life,
But we were going different directions.
We were part of e...
MARGO T. ROSE

It's not that I'm angry;
You've done nothing wrong.
I'm just not sure why I'm staying
MARGO T. ROSE

I know I've got no reason to be crying;
I know that there is nowhere left to run.
I know t...
MARGO T. ROSE

Your smile breaks my heart,
And your laughter burns my skin,
And if I had to tell you how ...
MARGO T. ROSE

That thing you thought you'd do
You start to think you can't;
You always say tomorrow,
MARGO T. ROSE

There's no room for me in your world;
It's time I stopped pretending.
But nothing hurts me...
MARGO T. ROSE

Don't be sorry;
Don't you cry.
It's enough
That you tried.
I love you,
And ...
MARGO T. ROSE

There is something magical about three you know - a trio is tight and nicely economical.
IAN WILLIAMS

My first job is big sister and I take that very seriously.
VENUS WILLIAMS

But I like to be thought of as a good father and a good husband.
TREAT WILLIAMS

After working so hard on the court, I find that snacks help me avoid late-afternoon energy lows.
VENUS WILLIAMS

The essential truth is that sometimes you're worried that they'll find out it's a fluke,...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

The day my son was born my life changed completely.
TREAT WILLIAMS

We have a responsibility to help those around us and help others in need.
VIRGINIA WILLIAMS

Sometimes I light incense and a candle. It's so peaceful and quiet. The steadiness of the energy...
CINDY WILLIAMS

If you're writing fantasy or science fiction, it's really hard to do if you don't know a...
TAD WILLIAMS

People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that ...
TAD WILLIAMS

One of the fascinating things about researching Heaven and Hell is, of course, the fact that there a...
TAD WILLIAMS

For me, any book I'm writing is also a chance to get in and research and read and learn things t...
TAD WILLIAMS

My parents were perfectly open-minded about everything. They never tried to convince us of what was ...
TAD WILLIAMS

I am a sandwich man. Somewhere early in life, my epigenetic switches got flicked to 'likes sandw...
TAD WILLIAMS

Every major technological step forward has profoundly changed human society - that's how we know...
TAD WILLIAMS

Unless technology itself is drastically repressed, the idea of the dystopian monoculture like Orwell...
TAD WILLIAMS

We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will thin...
TAD WILLIAMS

I've always been partial to werewolves, perhaps because there's a desperation to their pligh...
TAD WILLIAMS

Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what...
TAD WILLIAMS

In the process of looking for comedy, you have to be deeply honest. And in doing that, you'll fi...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

Peace is not wimpy. It's about sitting down and negotiating with people you hate. Ultimately, al...
BETTY WILLIAMS

Everyone makes their own comments. That's how rumors get started.
VENUS WILLIAMS

You have to let fear go. Another lesson is you just have to believe in yourself; you just have to. T...
VENUS WILLIAMS

Some people say that I have an attitude- Maybe I do. But I think that you have to. You have to belie...
VENUS WILLIAMS

Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going fo...
VENUS WILLIAMS

Sports are a great place to show that equality can happen.
VENUS WILLIAMS

The day I'm not improving will be the day I hang up the racket.
VENUS WILLIAMS

A lot of times, I don't just do juice; I do the whole thing blended to keep the fiber.
VENUS WILLIAMS

Losses have propelled me to even bigger places, so I understand the importance of losing. You can ne...
VENUS WILLIAMS

Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.
VENUS WILLIAMS

I always like to win. But I'm the big sister. I want to make sure she has everything, even if I ...
VENUS WILLIAMS

I like to be busy. It's not always easy because the schedule gets busy; especially, the more suc...
VENUS WILLIAMS

I'm always in search for perfection. If it's not perfect, I'm back to the drawing board.
VENUS WILLIAMS

You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner.
VENUS WILLIAMS

I guess rumors are more exciting than the truth.
VENUS WILLIAMS

No matter who you are, the grass is never greener on the other side.
VENUS WILLIAMS

I've always found the rain very calming.
VENUS WILLIAMS

Hitting is the most important part of the game. It is where the big money is, where much of the stat...
TED WILLIAMS

Baseball's future? Bigger and bigger, better and better! No question about it, it's the grea...
TED WILLIAMS

I hope somebody hits .400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the la...
TED WILLIAMS

I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.
TED WILLIAMS

If there was ever a man born to be a hitter it was me.
TED WILLIAMS

If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.
TED WILLIAMS

All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.
TED WILLIAMS

Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders.
TED WILLIAMS

There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and...
TED WILLIAMS

By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.
TED WILLIAMS

If you don't think too good, don't think too much.
TED WILLIAMS

Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to b...
TED WILLIAMS

There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can imp...
TED WILLIAMS

A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime - and that was mine, to have people say, 'Th...
TED WILLIAMS

God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
TED WILLIAMS

According to my grandmother, I started singing as soon as I began talking. I always wanted to be an ...
VESTA WILLIAMS

A lot of people have called me the black Bette Midler, and I regard that as a compliment.
VESTA WILLIAMS

I let her take control. The older kids listen to her. Sometimes, I feel like it's not my place. My parents didn't get divorced, so I don't know the emotions. She's there to give them the love and cuddling. All the kids listen to her.

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I let her take control. The older kids listen to her. Sometimes, I feel like it's not my place. My parents didn't get divorced, so I don't know the emotions. She's there to give them the love and cuddling. All the kids listen to her.

Margo Williams

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