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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH G. WILLOW WILSON DAVID HAREWOOD It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON HILL HARPER AVA DUVERNAY In the beginning it was all black and white. MAUREEN O'HARA SPIKE LEE TAMRON HALL ANTHONY BOURDAIN MAISIE WILLIAMS ZENA WYNN I'm in the middle of the road, it seems vague of unclear way, of where I'm going but no matter what ... HLONIM JACK KEROUAC JACK KEROUAC CORY DOCTOROW I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... wor... TASHA SMITH HENRY LOUIS GATES PATRICIA HILL COLLINS It's important to me that on 'Family Feud' I could kiss all the people. It sounds crazy ... RICHARD DAWSON RUSSELL PETERS When I started, it was all meter maids or the sassy nurse, or the sassy receptionist in the hospital... RETTA DR. DRE I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX With black Americans at the top of most lists of chronic diseases and among the least likely to have... LORRAINE COLE DENNIS PRAGER BELL HOOKS AUGUST WILSON GABOUREY SIDIBE CHRIS CORNELL It turned out to be just his sort of life in Melbourne [Florida] -- a little three-room mini apartme... WELLS TOWER ELIZABETH PETERS But when have I ever needed saving?TRACY WARD ASSEGID HABTEWOLD So often when Black men have to play roles on TV, we're either the noble savage or we're com... DON CHEADLE BOB MARLEY DENNIS PRAGER TA-NEHISI COATES We have tears in our eyes ROALD DAHL 'The Stooges' used to be ubiquitous, back in the '60s and '70s. They were on TV all ... CHRIS DIAMANTOPOULOS Mothers yielding Bibles, contemplating smearing the blood of lamb chops over her doorway. Anything t... ANTONIA PERDU HANNIBAL BURESS Until 'Moonlight,' I had never seen one black man cook for another on screen. But I wanted t... BARRY JENKINS AUNJANUE ELLIS J.K. ROWLING LESTER HOLT AVA DUVERNAY White-on-white crime is a devastation in America like so-called black-on-black crime. It's not b... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON Black is overrated. You'll never find it in my stores. Of course it's slimming, but it's... BRUNELLO CUCINELLI Our character isn’t defined by the battles we win or lose, but by the battles we dare to fight. ROBERT BEATTY CHARLES BARKLEY TWIGGY People are out of their home on a Saturday night or they're at the movies or they're at dinn... DAVID E. KELLEY There are expectations in how you play your character as a black woman, to be sassy and the same kin... NICOLE BEHARIE REGGIE WATTS When African-Americans come to France, the French show them more consideration than they would show ... EUZHAN PALCY There's an inherent idea that if a Black executive producer and a Black director are going to do... GABRIELLE UNION I would be on the 'anti-reality' show. I can't stand reality TV. I can tell you one that... ERIC CHURCH Calling Michelle 'Obama Barack's baby mama?' Tell me, is that acceptable? But the Obamas... NAS When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's b... CARLA GUGINO LYNN JURICH It's something that black men still go through to this day, which is women clutching their purse... CEDRIC RICHMOND AMIT RAY DAPHNE DU MAURIER One of the big mysteries about the black hole at the center of the galaxy is, 'Why don't we ... ANDREA M. GHEZ JACKSON KATZ ADAM SCOTT AVA DUVERNAY I know black kids who don't even know any other black kids except their cousins. And that's ... DARRYL PINCKNEY That's why for Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society the colors are black and white. There are no... ZAKK WYLDE When you decide you want to become a television writer, you naively assume it's going to be like... JEFFREY KLARIK NEAL SHUSTERMAN LAURA SCHLESSINGER You have to know the forces that are against you and that are trying to break you down. We talk abou... D'ANGELO MOS DEF JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU HARUKI MURAKAMI JACK KEROUAC JACK KEROUAC JACK KEROUAC RIHANNA IMAN Black and white thinking forces a choice between pretending we know everything and believing we know... TERENCE T. GORSKI Our personal past is only available to us now through black-and-white film, it's a medium for commun... FRANK LENTRICCHIA TONY KUSHNER How could 30 years be the blink-of-the-eye it felt? It was the difference between black-and-white fo... ALI SMITH AISHA TYLER KATHERINE MCNAMARA KARA WALKER CARINE ROITFELD CAM NEWTON AVA DUVERNAY ZENDAYA Watching Madonna puffing on a cigar on David Letterman's show, I thought, 'Gosh, she's f... LA INDIA Anybody that's ever been to Israel and to Palestine knows that you can't look at a person an... KEITH ELLISON I'd go for roles that would say 'for all ethnicities,' but what they're pretty much ... BRONSON PELLETIER
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DARRELL ISSA KOBAYASHI ISSA KOBAYASHI ISSA KOBAYASHI ISSA KOBAYASHI ISSA KOBAYASHI ISSA KOBAYASHI ISSA KOBAYASHI ISSA Some people want to amass a great amount of wealth and make a great looking obituary. I'm going ... DARRELL ISSA My brother went on to have a long and sordid career. DARRELL ISSA Awareness can save lives. It is essential that the Congress act to promote educational initiatives t... DARRELL ISSA There is a level of detail that was not there before that is very important. All of us see a heighte... DARRELL ISSA KOBAYASHI ISSA We have agreed that all the sacked workers return to work as we sort out other issues. ISSA WAFULA Fifty-two workers nearly died while trying to put off a fire yet they are not fire experts and neith... ISSA WAFULA This partnership could not have come at a better time than when we are in the threshold of hosting t... ISSA HAYATOU I have no doubt whatsoever that the Olympic football tournaments in China will be played in perfect ... ISSA HAYATOU We are convinced that the stadiums will be completed on time and of good quality. ISSA HAYATOU We would not have decent pitches to stage the tournament on. It would be more like water polo than f... ISSA HAYATOU Do not lock yourself into an egotistical and a purely (financial) accounting approach to football. ISSA HAYATOU The large majority of contractors are good contractors, and we value their services to the city and ... ISSA DADOUSH It appears ? appears , I want to emphasize ? that the cabinet was damaged last week. We don't know. ... ISSA DADOUSH These are Americans. They're our neighbors. If not Houston, who else. ISSA DADOUSH Bureaucracies tend to grow and to brag about their growth based on how many individuals they have an... DARRELL ISSA Remember, America's greatness is based on creating wealth like the rest of the world has never k... DARRELL ISSA The debate on how to shrink the federal government is at the core of our problem of government not d... DARRELL ISSA In America, we're trying to find a peaceful solution in the Middle East and we're not going ... DARRELL ISSA I have an I.Q. of 100 plus a little bit. I have to work real hard to get things when I read. DARRELL ISSA I don't recall having a gun. I really don't. I don't think I ever pulled a gun on anyone... DARRELL ISSA If there was a blog with five listeners or viewers, I had to be on it. Now I have to be on fewer med... DARRELL ISSA Cleveland's a great place when you're a kid. You hardly ever get sunburned, without the sun ... DARRELL ISSA Every one of our congressional offices, every day, is under attack. DARRELL ISSA You want to toe the line with tough investigations without falling into political grandstanding inhe... DARRELL ISSA You can call me a pain. I'll accept that as a compliment. DARRELL ISSA I've said my patience is not infinite. DARRELL ISSA My father and all my uncles on both sides served in the military in World War II and Korea. DARRELL ISSA Like most Americans, I hope and wish is that there is a peaceful resolution to the Middle East confl... DARRELL ISSA Some people say that watching pay freezes in the government is like watching water freeze. It expand... DARRELL ISSA Every portal coming into this country is being attacked by those who would harvest information, both... DARRELL ISSA Every ISP is being attacked, maliciously both from in the United States and outside of the United St... DARRELL ISSA Peace in Palestine is inevitable. The question is how do we make it happen today. DARRELL ISSA I don't plot with huge detail, just big moments and important elements, and then I have a struct... RAE CARSON I decided a long time ago to be unfiltered and wholly myself in these areas of social media. I'v... RAE CARSON I'd love to see more middle and high school teachers who are not teaching English develop classr... RAE CARSON I miss my family and friends from Cali a lot. I also miss late-night business hours, hiking in the S... RAE CARSON I have tremendous respect for teens who navigate the quagmire that is modern religion. If there is a... RAE CARSON I'm an atheist and a humanist, so I have no desire to evangelize anyone. RAE CARSON It's important to not marginalize any people group in fiction. A complete, authentic-feeling wor... RAE CARSON I saw 'Star Wars' for the first time when I was four years old. Sure, I thought Princess Lei... RAE CARSON Some of the most common pitfalls I see occur when authors don't check their privilege. Billions ... RAE CARSON I've had a love affair with the desert ever since I can remember. No matter what I wrote - conte... RAE CARSON I worked at a job where 90 percent of my coworkers were Spanish-speaking, and some of them were only... RAE CARSON I do confess to being the exasperated, bossy, know-it-all, overachieving big sister. RAE CARSON I was a teenage girl once. I was not an overweight teenage girl, but I had really bad acne when I wa... RAE CARSON I was a Social Science major in college, with an emphasis in secondary education. I took as many cou... RAE CARSON 'Lord of the Rings' was a childhood favorite, though the adult Rae wishes the women in those... RAE CARSON I love George R.R. Martin's 'Game of Thrones' series. RAE CARSON When you write about faith, people will be upset with you no matter what. I've heard from reader... RAE CARSON The common thread in all my projects is 'girls being awesome.' Can we make that a genre? RAE CARSON I grew up in a cloistered, conservative culture that adhered to strict gender roles. So it's eas... RAE CARSON The message was always, 'It's good to be pretty, but don't look like you're trying t... RAE CARSON I must be honest here; I don't think there's such a thing as 'unconventional' when i... RAE CARSON My most profound growth as a writer came when I joined an online critique group. What a harrowing, t... RAE CARSON I dreamed about this as a kid, that I would write - and people would read - a whole series of books.... RAE CARSON Competing in pageants made me hyper-aware of the unfair expectations society places on women in term... RAE CARSON A family is really a union of two separate entities. When you get married, you are marrying one fami... PATRICIA RAE One of the first things that I did was, I got myself a publicist as soon as 'Maria Full of Grace... PATRICIA RAE You don't always necessarily see eye to eye with the people that you are getting married into yo... PATRICIA RAE Most of the players are Alex McLeish signings and we want to do well for him, as well as ourselves, ALEX RAE He was the guy who gave us our chance and we want to do well for him. I'm sure we can turn things ar... ALEX RAE It will be nice to play against my old club again. I look back fondly at my time there, that club wa... ALEX RAE Everyone at the club was disappointed with the Hibs defeat, so it is crucial we bounce back against ... ALEX RAE Most of the boys are walking around in a daze in there. We thought we had done enough to win but the... ALEX RAE Peace is such hard work. Harder than war. It takes way more effort to forgive than to kill. RAE CARSON Honor from death,” I snap, “is a myth. Invented by the war torn to make sense of the horrific. I... RAE CARSON If you give up, it's over. But if you press on, you will either discover the rewards of persisting t... LETICIA RAE You look beautiful," Alodia says. RAE CARSON When life's got you down, keep your head up... you can't see the ground anyway NICOLE RAE A sense of mission lost RAE ARMANTROUT I think sometimes when we find love we pretend it away, or ignore it, or tell ourselves we’re imag... RAE CARSON I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love... DAPHNE RAE But I can say one thing -- I will not say a negative word about anyone on this platform. BOB RAE Love is stronger than hate. BOB RAE This was a mass murder. This was a bombing attack carried out on Canadian civilians and the conseque... BOB RAE This was a mass murder. This was a bombing attack that was carried out on Canadian civilians. And th... BOB RAE The fundamental objective of an inquiry has to be lessons learned. How did these things go wrong, ar... BOB RAE It isn't realistic in this province to think that tuition is going to be frozen indefinitely. It doe... BOB RAE I think he adds a lot of perspective to any discussions about the future of the country. BOB RAE When other countries seem to be able to move forward in that area, I think Canadians expect to see t... BOB RAE [He added,] Well-dressed, fit, and vigorous for his 73 years, he was a tough political partisan. He... BOB RAE What happens to Canada and what happens to Canadians matters. I believe that Canada needs a party th... BOB RAE The most beautiful things you can wear are your self-confidence and your self-love. LETICIA RAE [Allowing states to enforce their own standards would lead to a confusing patchwork of requirements,... RAE TYSON I cry in the most joyful of moments. It's not tears of joy, either, it's the idea of knowing it won'... KAYLA RAE first step in a defect investigation. RAE TYSON We set a standard that provides tremendous benefits without compromising safety or causing severe ec... RAE TYSON We're confident that we went through a very rigorous process in writing the final light truck standa... RAE TYSON They certainly suggest an agency that is very, very committed to improving highway safety. RAE TYSON Just because it's small doesn't mean it can't meet the standard. RAE TYSON (Car and truck drivers) have had all winter to forget about motorcycles. RAE TYSON We are seeing lot of new lighting innovations; some of them are allowed and some not. My understandi... RAE TYSON The privacy issue permeates this whole rule-making issue. RAE TYSON There are certain types of crashes where SUVs may provide you with some type of protection but you h... RAE TYSON We have a total of 428 complaints, but no crashes or injuries. RAE TYSON We have a total of 428 complaints, but no crashes or injuries, RAE TYSON I think there is a segment of the buying public that may be buying them with the false impression th... RAE TYSON We don't care how they get there as long as they get there. RAE TYSON We intend to keep the investigation open. We need to make sure the recall has addressed the total pr... RAE TYSON I believe that some in the advocacy community are overlooking that the most obvious way to reduce in... RAE TYSON Quite frankly, the scores are continuing to the point where it's rare for a vehicle not to get a fou... RAE TYSON We felt this was large enough to send a message. RAE TYSON We do have a lot more complaint now than we did a month ago. We are looking into the Jeep Grand Cher... RAE TYSON We will be seeking additional information from the manufacturer before we go any further. RAE TYSON We felt there was sufficient cause to opening an investigation [after getting complaints from] priva... RAE TYSON We just thought we should get the word out there in the meantime. RAE TYSON We're satisfied that their remedy is going to take care of the problem, RAE TYSON We're satisfied that what they're proposing to do will take care of the problem. RAE TYSON Bendix has done everything by the book. They notified us the way they should. They came in and met u... RAE TYSON It's the cognitive distraction of the conversation that causes problems. RAE TYSON The beauty of the current approach to school bus safety ... is that it doesn't require kids to do an... RAE TYSON I do switch it off. It's important to switch it off. ALAN RAE I think my greatest chance for success will come in the country music arena. That's what I was raise... MANDY RAE We used to listen to all the marvelous operas on records. Music was a very important part of our liv... CHARLOTTE RAE Because of the power of television, I was visible to everybody all over the world. But there are man... CHARLOTTE RAE They will be people who can afford to eat out a lot. ANGELA RAE The more formal structure gives the city a level of confidence-a way to professionally channel tax d... ANGELA RAE If they are friendly to van pool and car pool parking and pedestrians, with a bus stop nearby, then ... ANGELA RAE Telling everybody, 'Oh, my boyfriend and I went to …' is a no-no. It's ridiculous. You skipped wor... RAE PEARSON You don't know how I feel about you, but you know that I do. I from. I feel about you. Knowing that ... KAYLA RAE We are nothing alike, but exactly the same. KAYLA RAE The roof crush standard is a proposal and we'll certainly take all comments into account when we wri... RAE TYSON You go on saying we're the same mind split perfectly in two. You go on saying we're practically join... KAYLA RAE No. The hardest word to say. KAYLA RAE We cry. We cry when we reach happiness, anger, sadness, all emotions. KAYLA RAE Another man's heart is full of hardships. Mine is easier. So is yours. With knowledge I see that onl... KAYLA RAE I change hearts now and then. Absorbing the life of another man. That is my peek reasoning and when ... KAYLA RAE It is expression that leads to modification. It is keeping it all inside that leads to frustration. ... KAYLA RAE She is saddest when she smiles; happiest when she cries. KAYLA RAE You can that one man insult you and hurt you and you can let that dwell in your mind forever or you ... KAYLA RAE I'll hear his words and wonder what inspired him to say, but never does her share. I ask and ask, bu... KAYLA RAE Philosophy; my favorite word. We all have our own buried inside and it only takes a moment to find. KAYLA RAE Don't you sit and wonder why a word is spoken? Don't you sit and ask why something is that way? Don'... KAYLA RAE The strength of just one good, love, is far stronger than that of all the evils bound together. KAYLA RAE Do you ever think about sorrow and joy? Do you picture the two, side by side? Do you guess and figur... KAYLA RAE I'm really close to the cliff, but I know there's someone closer to falling over the edge. KAYLA RAE I wake up and start to cry, no mater who is there to see. I think of love, the lost and the found, a... KAYLA RAE I roll into pure thought and sit and sulk at the wall. Tears don't, usually, come pouring from my ey... KAYLA RAE None of us FAIL, but many of us DON'T SUCCEED. The two are completely different. If you try, which a... KAYLA RAE You see the night sky and billions of stars stare down at you. In their eyes there are billions of p... KAYLA RAE If you're are reading this and you love someone who's not yet yours, then get up and chase after the... KAYLA RAE When a man chooses to be solemn, do not tell them to afraid, allow to be prosperous. KAYLA RAE Every dream starts off small. You might throw wads of paper into a trashcan or sing songs to your fa... KAYLA RAE I've cried talking to you... over the phone. You say you hated it, but will you ever see me cry wher... KAYLA RAE I hate it when something is undone. When a bond or strength is broken. When it all unwinds. When eve... KAYLA RAE If there's something you need to say, just say it. If it all goes wrong, it will all blow over and s... KAYLA RAE You will love someone and not let go. They might not ever notice you. And even you finally come toge... KAYLA RAE Jealousy. So strong. So powerful. But so hard to control. It will eat away at your mind. Destroy you... KAYLA RAE Pain is just fighting to get back what just was broken. KAYLA RAE If I were to say, "I love you." what would you do? Probably go squeal in your bedroom or burst the n... KAYLA RAE I cry when I think of you....... Doesn't that seem like the sweetest thing in the whole world; to he... KAYLA RAE What brings you knowledge, strength, experience, brings you success. KAYLA RAE Yes. We say, but don't live up to it. KAYLA RAE A perfect life isn't the mastery of it, but making mistakes and moving on. KAYLA RAE Eyes are there not only to see what's visual for all else, but to see beyond the walls in the maze o... KAYLA RAE
We don't want to create a literary ghetto in which black writers are only allowed to write black... 
American television, for all its faults, still has a black presence in shows and even in commercials... 
I've gotten a firsthand view at the destruction that black men and black women not being able to... 
It's not enough even to have one black Barbie... because black women are not a monolith. 
If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other l... 
The troops aren't red and blue. They're not black and white. They're not male and female... 
I'm very proud of the Rome episode of 'No Reservations' because it violated all the conv... 
It's never black and white on 'Game of Thrones.' If you think it's black and white, ... 
Rehashing the past wouldn't change anything. Time to move forward. 
They stand uncertainly underneath immense skies, and everything about them is drowned. 
I heard the Denver and Rio Grande locomotives howling off in to the mountains. I wanted to pursue my... 
I read my copy of On the Road and dug the scenery whizzing past. On the Road is a semi-autobiographi... 
Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class wit... 
Black women's feelings of responsibility for nurturing the children in their own extended family... 
Indians are the second largest population in the world, but we're invisible on TV - everything i... 
Black women are the strongest most hardworking people on earth. 
Once one understands that 'racial tensions' is a euphemism for a black animosity toward whit... 
No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women.... 
Most of black America is in housing projects, without jobs, living on welfare. And this is not the c... 
One of my personal plights in this business is about playing 'The Sassy Black Girl.' 
If you're an American kid, you can't help but be influenced by Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath a... 
But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended. 
Don't sacrifice the present and attempt to achieve the impossible- to completely correct the past...... 
Me don't dip on nobody's side. Me don't dip on the black man's side, not the white m... 
The election, and even the re-election, of a black man as president, in a country that is 87 percent... 
The essential relationship across American history between black people and white people is one of e... 
I think one of my first jokes - in the black community, there's people who have jokes about skin... 
Black women are supposed to be 'strong,' but the burden of carrying our race and carrying ou... 
My mother didn’t have a heart, Kreacher,” Sirius snapped. "She kept herself alive out of pure sp... 
I really bristle when I get called to events and people introduce me as one of the top black anchors... 
But when I see a story on welfare on television, they only show black people. 
Yes, black is slimming, but it's not always youthful. The right tone of red, however, is flatter... 
I guess, in a way, I grew up mixed race: half white, half black. That question's always been on ... 
I think, in a lot of places, the solar panels are a badge of honor; they're trendy. If you go to... 
You may fall down when you dance on the edge but edge is the source of all miracles and mystery. 
...The fact that it's black transforms it. Has the same effect on women that black stockings have on... 
If the KKK was smart enough, they would've created gangsta rap because it's such a caricatur... 
Like, on the 'Parks And Rec' set, I still feel like I'm a guest star. Being a fan of the... 
There's something very important about films about black women and girls being made by black wom... 
Maybe we're standing like coins on the edge?"
When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrato... 
Bob Marley performed the 'One Love Peace' concert in Jamaica with the two different warring ... 
There is, I am sensible, an age at which every individual of you would choose to stop; and you will ... 
But thing in the past are like plate that’s shattered to pieces. You can never put it back togethe... 
That's all I could ever hope for, to have a positive effect on women. 'Cos women are powerfu... 
People called me 'Iman the black model'. In my country, we're all black, so nobody calle... 
If you're gay and you can't hold hands, or you're black and you can't catch a taxi, ... 
If you look at shows like 'Def Comedy Jam' in its heyday, there were so many really funny, t... 
A lot of times on our show, 'Shadowhunters,' we have excuses to dawn some kind of sexy black... 
I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film. 
I've always used black girls on the runway, because I think they're beautiful. I don't n... 
I don't even want to touch on the topic of black quarterback, because I think this game is bigge... 
I didn't like my hair and makeup one time on a photo shoot, and my publicist told me, 'You s... 
I'm transitioning to television and film, but ultimately, I want to have a stronger presence on ... 
There's so many, 'no, black people aren't like that' barriers in mainstream media. 
I hate to say it but I hate black humor. I feel like a Klan member saying it, but it's just not ... 
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Where there are humans, 