The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone.


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You shouldn't be ashamed of your pain. You have the right to have your pain treated.
NAOMI JUDD
We're spirited and spiritual... and fun follows us around.
NAOMI JUDD
When you're a caregiver, you need to realize that you've got to take care of yourself, becau...
NAOMI JUDD
I grew up in a family of secrets; there was a lot of pathology in the family.
NAOMI JUDD
It will kill four times as many Americans as AIDS will over the next decade. I feel that what ever k...
NAOMI JUDD
I love the ocean, but I'm just not one to lie on the beach.
NAOMI JUDD
I'm not just a big-haired redhead country singer who dresses flamboyantly, has this wicked sense...
NAOMI JUDD
It's so important for those living with chronic pain to establish good communication with both t...
NAOMI JUDD
Your body hears everything your mind says.
NAOMI JUDD
I learned more about myself by being an RN than anything else I've ever done.
NAOMI JUDD
They're trying to tell us that we're not right, so we have to buy their products. The number...
NAOMI JUDD
A dead end street is a good place to turn around.
NAOMI JUDD
There are many paths but only one journey.
NAOMI JUDD
I love England, especially the food. There's nothing I like more than a lovely bowl of pasta.
NAOMI CAMPBELL
I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in mysel...
NAOMI CAMPBELL
I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.
NAOMI CAMPBELL
I never diet. I smoke. I drink now and then. I never work out.
NAOMI CAMPBELL
I'm very observant and very instinctive. In life, you have to have the vulnerability to accept w...
NAOMI CAMPBELL
I've been offered jobs by companies that supported apartheid many times in the 25 years of my mo...
NAOMI CAMPBELL
I don't always wear underwear. When I'm in the heat, especially, I can't wear it. Like, ...
NAOMI CAMPBELL
I don't worry about a number. I'm fine with aging.
NAOMI CAMPBELL
I feel very responsible for young models of colour. They come to me and tell me they're not gett...
NAOMI CAMPBELL
Well, in brief, I was discovered by a lady called Beth Boldt. She had also been a model. She used to...
NAOMI CAMPBELL
I live my life day by day, and that's how I continue to live it.
NAOMI CAMPBELL
Children are our future we must take care of them with maximum effort.
NAOMI CAMPBELL
I like to control everything, and you cannot control everything. You have to at some point say, '...
NAOMI CAMPBELL
Everyone has a temper. A temper is an emotion.
NAOMI CAMPBELL
What makes a person is the ability to look at themselves and deal with their own lives.
NAOMI CAMPBELL
The chocolate and crisps come in at times. You have to allow the little things that make you happy. ...
NAOMI CAMPBELL
I work very hard and I'm worth every cent.
NAOMI CAMPBELL
Look, you have to make mistakes. That's how you learn and that's how the world works.
NAOMI CAMPBELL
It's a new challenge to see how people can change your look. I like words like transformation, r...
NAOMI CAMPBELL
I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.
NAOMI CAMPBELL
I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's ...
NAOMI CAMPBELL
Well, when I started modeling in the mid-'80s, the girls who did shows did shows, and the girls ...
NAOMI CAMPBELL
I'm not set on a pedestal where I think I'm too high and mighty.
NAOMI CAMPBELL
My features are completely ethnic.
NAOMI CAMPBELL
The system is in great shape, but the levees are sinking. If we don't get the money fast enough to r...
AL NAOMI
The water does circulate out of the basin eventually. But it depends a lot on meteorological conditi...
AL NAOMI
It's possible to protect New Orleans from a Category 5 hurricane. To do nothing is tantamount to neg...
AL NAOMI
I can't go above it by law. That's what I am authorized to do. Anything above that means I have to s...
AL NAOMI
If you don't install some type of substantial hurricane protection along the Gulf coast it's going t...
AL NAOMI
We can't even get in there to have a chance to look at that and see the condition of the infrastruct...
AL NAOMI
They did not contribute to the flooding of the city.
AL NAOMI