- Rock
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- Nov 07, 2020
Always Quotes
Quotes on what stays constant.
These quotes describe things treated as constants - assuming a favorite team will always compete each season, or committing to always use one's art to elevate others. One even reflects candidly on always being honest about taxes. Related pages include Good Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom was always driving me back and forth to guitar lessons, growing up. She was super supportive and probably my biggest cheerleader.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always wanted to be like my dad.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love essays, but they're not always the best way to communicate to a larger audience.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
My search is always to find ways to chronicle, to share and to document stories about people, just everyday people. Stories that offer transformation, that lean into transcendence, but that are never sentimental, that never look away from the darkest things about us.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was growing up in Nigeria - and I shouldn't say Nigeria, because that's too general, but in Afikpo, the Igbo part of the country where I'm from - there were always rites of passage for young men. Men were taught to be men in the ways in which we are not women; that's essentially what it is.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
African narratives in the West, they proliferate. I really don't care anymore. I'm more interested in the stories we tell about ourselves - how, as a writer, I find that African writers have always been the curators of our humanity on this continent.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grand uncle was a traditional priest, and he would always say to me as a kid, 'We stand in our own light,' which essentially for him meant we were entirely responsible for a lot of what happens to us and for the ways in which our lives play out.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always inspired by all of my friends. I aspire to make clothes that my friends would want to wear, that they would gravitate towards anyway.
- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up in Seattle, I was always that kid who didn't subscribe to what everyone else was wearing.
- Nov 07, 2020
I always knew I wanted to start my own line. Nights and weekends, I would work on my business plan.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Running a farm is about solving a problem, and that's always interesting to me. But it's a constant process.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm half-Armenian. Even though my grandparents did not discuss the genocide, and my father - like many sons and daughters of immigrants - wanted to be as 'American' as possible, I was always aware of it. How could I not be?
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The relationship with my people, the Nigerian people, is very good. My relationship with the rulers has always been problematic.
- Figuring
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- Nov 07, 2020