What is blackness? Is it the way you talk? Do you got to say, 'Dey this, dey dat.' Or the way you dress? Or is it the forgiving of certain things? What is black enough?
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Related It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is. MICHAEL KEATON I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is. TED TURNER You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ... SUFJAN STEVENS How do you love your children? By doing what's best for them. Then how would you love your... J. GRANT HOWARD You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like... BEBE REXHA It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive... DAN FLAVIN With '10,000,' our aim was to make a film that was entertaining and a roller-coaster ride; i... STEVEN STRAIT Ques eso? Queso? NOLAN J. VANDER HAAGEN See the world for what it is. BEAUTIFUL! ANTHONY T. HINCKS I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, 'This isn't true!' It is what... HARRY STYLES When you're recording to analog tape, it captures performance and you can't necessarily mani... DAVE GROHL Wanting something badly even though it could hurt you," Bentley repeated. He looked up at the ceilin... NELLIE CHRISTINE I saw that there is no Nature, That Nature doesn’t exist, That there are hills, valleys,... ALBERTO CAEIRO Szerzetesek, vannak tanulatlan, közönséges emberek, akik nem gondolnak a nemes dolgokkal, nem hal... GAUTAMA BUDDHA És Brahmá, a Teremtő, felső ruháját fél vállán átvetve, összetett kézzel meghajolt a Mag... GAUTAMA BUDDHA Things don’t have significance: they only have existence. Things are the only hidden meaning ... ALBERTO CAEIRO When push comes to shove would people do what they felt was right, to get justice done or would they... GARY F EVANS... Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY Why, der language down dar in de far South is jus' as different from ours in Maryland, as you ca... HARRIET TUBMAN I’m glad I see with my eyes and not the pages I’ve read. ALBERTO CAEIRO The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board. D.M. TIMNEY She buys "mixed salad greens" for seven dollars a bag, triple-washed with who knows what. And to get... RUDOLPH DELSON What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act? CRAIG GROESCHEL I consider a dream like I consider a shadow,” answered Caeiro, with his usual divine, unexpected p... ÁLVARO DE CAMPOS The love you get, is equal to the love you give. BEN OAK Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is. NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO I am Happy and satisfied with what I am.
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MUDITHA CHAMPIKA When I die it will be game over,... but I know one life is short, to be selfish is not the best deci... DEYTH BANGER It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER The man stopped talking and was looking at the sunset. But what does someone who hates and love... ALBERTO CAEIRO If I knew I was going to die tomorrow, And Spring came the day after tomorrow, I would die... ALBERTO CAEIRO The Madden Curse has really taken on a life of its own. People just love talking about it, and it is... DREW BREES Between what i see in a field and what I see in another field There passes for a moment the fig... ALBERTO CAEIRO It’s an already inside outside, The philosophers say it’s the soul But it’s not the ... ALBERTO CAEIRO Do I believe a thing has limits!? Of course! Nothing exists that doesn’t have limits. Existence me... ÁLVARO DE CAMPOS I'm probably the least harsh on myself, and I try not to scrutinize everything about my body. As... KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN Not everybody wants be texting their 15-year-old asking how his math tutor was. They would rather be... RENEE JAMES Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ... GARY F EVANS... Let your actions speak LOVE. No matter what it is. NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO How you see the world is a reflection of what is within you. STEPHEN RICHARDS Courage is feeling justly afraid and yet still doing what is right. SHANNON HALE The first principle of cognitive therapy is that all your moods are created by your 'cognitions,... DAVID D. BURNS The aim of philosophy, abstractly formulated, is to understand how things in the broadest possible s... WILFRID SELLARS FOOTBALL IS A DECISION GAME BASED ON QUICK THINKING IN RELATION TO WHAT IS HAPPENING AROUND YOU AND ... LERCHE NJANG The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception... SAM HARRIS I'm just not into trying to convince people like me. I always say to myself, 'It is what it ... NENE LEAKES What comes, when it comes, will be what it is. ALBERTO CAEIRO Night doesn’t fall for my eyes But my idea of the night is that it falls for my eyes. Be... ALBERTO CAEIRO I’m in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren’t, either. Nobody goes faster than the legs they... ALBERTO CAEIRO I never had a problem with my face on screen. I thought it is what it is, and I was turned off by ac... ROBERT REDFORD It is what it is. I balled out, had some good years, man, had fun and did it with some guys and made... CALVIN JOHNSON Everyone got a follower, how good or bad is all this shit, it's another topic… JUst leave it for l... DEYTH BANGER What if — is more complicated than that? What if maybe opposite is true as well? Because, if bad c... DONNA TARTT Sooner or later, what you do will speak SOTONYE ANGA Age is no issue to me. I think 50 is the new 30 and 70 is the new 50. There are no rules that say yo... TINA TURNER You know, there's nothing you can do about your public image. It is what it is. I just try to do... CHRISTOPHER WALKEN A black dress is beautiful! It's a good choice. It could be the wrong choice at certain events o... OLIVIER THEYSKENS The person who lets them get you down, any kind of problem, is the person that fades out. So you'... TOM BENSON What I believe in and the way I work with my clients is we're so quick to say what we don't ... BRAD GORESKI That is the key of this collection, being yourself. Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion... GIANNI VERSACE I have Tourettes and Aspergers, but Tourrets and Aspergers don't have me. You know, I'm doin... JAMES DURBIN Now look here, Smithers. They's two kind's of stealing. They's the small kind, like what you does, a... EUGENE O'NEILL Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do SOTONYE ANGA I was born subject like others to errors and defects, But never to the error of wanting to unde... ALBERTO CAEIRO Accept the universe As the gods gave it to you. If the gods wanted to give you something e... ALBERTO CAEIRO I'm living with every step. I can't live with regret. The past is the past. I'm not worr... RYAN SHECKLER My mum is black, my dad is white, and when I was a teenager, people would say, 'So what are you?... FLEUR EAST I'm from the old school - you go where the power is, and you try to make fun of it. When it beco... DANA CARVEY Quite frankly, I think political correctness is the worst form of censorship. You're not allowed... WILBUR SMITH He had a harder time helping her out though. He was asleep while she was doing stars. Without wings,... LAURIE FRANKEL There is no way to determine how a black hole was created or what kinds of things it has swallowed j... CRAIG SARAZIN Life is not all about sticking or stopping your thoughts to old memories but LIFE STARTS when you st... NEHA KOTHARI For an optimist, life is full of opportunity. For a pessimist, life is full of adversity. Life is wh... DEBASISH MRIDHA I try to explain to people that the only way to be cool is to be who you truly are, and the only way... TUCKER MAX Ongea unachoweza kutenda. ENOCK MAREGESI You drift through life and let things happen to you, or go by design and say, 'This is what I... RICK WARREN That's what you have to learn with life. It's your life at the end of the day. There's r... TREVOR JACKSON Now, product placement, whichever way you look at it, whether you like it or you think it's disg... DANIEL CRAIG And since today’s all there is for now, that’s everything. Who knows if I’ll be dead the ... ALBERTO CAEIRO The artistic element of Manhattan has kind of moved to Brooklyn. Has it changed it? Yeah. Has it rui... JULIAN CASABLANCAS
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BILLY WILDER I've met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes. BILLY WILDER Making movies is a little like walking into a dark room. Some people stumble across furniture, other... BILLY WILDER She was an absolute genius as a comedic actress, with an extraordinary sense for comedic dialogue. I... BILLY WILDER Perhaps it's getting to be an act of courage to say the truth about her. Well, let me be courageous.... BILLY WILDER The theatre is supremely fitted to say: ''Behold! These things are.'' Yet most dramatists employ it ... THORNTON WILDER When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery... THORNTON WILDER My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your ... THORNTON WILDER I love acting, especially if it's a fantasy of some kind, where it's not just realistic, it&... GENE WILDER So my idea of neurotic is spending too much time trying to correct a wrong. When I feel that I'm... GENE WILDER We're getting excited with the number of young players we have running multiple positions. BOB WILDER Today was the most success we've had. It had been discouraging for our guys, so to score three today... BOB WILDER Everybody has a right to their own troubles. THORNTON WILDER I decided to do something I've been wanting to do for a long time - go get a chef and a nutritio... DEONTAY WILDER I was an old man when I was 12; and now I am an old man, AND IT'S SPLENDID! THORNTON WILDER Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great works at some moment every day THORNTON WILDER A living is made, Mr. Kemper, by selling something that everybody needs at least once a year. Yes, s... THORNTON WILDER Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger. THORNTON WILDER The tiny tealeaf of consciousness spreads its bittersweet smoke through the sea of the primitive min... THORNTON WILDER But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human ... THORNTON WILDER Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home THORNTON WILDER There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from th... THORNTON WILDER I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal THORNTON WILDER An incinerator is a writer's best friend. THORNTON WILDER The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith t... THORNTON WILDER My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy the ice cream while it's on your p... THORNTON WILDER Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder THORNTON WILDER The marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she is a householder. THORNTON WILDER Some people today want to see a quick fix to the trade imbalance. And if there was one, believe us, ... DENNIS WILDER A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.'This was said by gene wilder ... what ... GENE WILDER The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much. THORNTON WILDER For what human ill does dawn not seem to be an alleviation? THORNTON WILDER And we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all t... THORNTON WILDER The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself, ''Oh, now I'v... THORNTON WILDER