- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Me Quotes
Quotes rooted in the first person.
These are quotes centered on 'me' - childhood memories tied to family traditions, like a grandfather's holiday reading passed down for decades, alongside admissions about how humor can double as self-protection. Several speak to the solitary nature of creative work, something also explored in Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone at home thought I was nuts when I said I wanted to be an actress, and I'm sure they were just trying to protect me from disappointment.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've learned that I don't need much sleep, and that I am able to really stand up for the things that I think that are important and that there are a lot of people out there who agree with me.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
People ask me why my figures have to be so black. There are a lot of reasons. First, the blackness is a rhetorical device. When we talk about ourselves as a people and as a culture, we talk about black history, black culture, black music. That's the rhetorical position we occupy.
- Favored
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to the Convent of the Sacred Heart for four years. It was interesting to me because, in a family where men were clearly favored over women, this was an atmosphere, a world, run by strong, determined, smart women in leadership, who had high expectations of the girls, and this tremendous sense of love and commitment to the wider world.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was younger, I had so many people in my family die. In my mind, heaven was as physical a place as home or school, and I knew that everyone I loved was together, enormously happy, and watching over me and awaiting my coming to this extraordinary place.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ambien is one of the most prescribed pills in America. A lot of people take it every night or several times a week or several times a month in order to help them sleep. I'm just not one of those people. That's the perception of me. But that's not the reality.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over the decades people from all walks of life have told me, 'When your father died, so did my hope.'
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people ask me what's really important about my father, I think the most important thing about him was his moral imagination.
- Go Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
When something irritates me, I don't go home and write; I just don't do that.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
So, there's like one luxury you take and since we do that, y'know, you're involved with people in suits; business people all the time. But hey, if I sit down on a bar and they leave, good for me.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
After the first couple of years of on 'Black-ish,' my wife and I actually broke up. We got back together, and it was this really, really difficult time for me.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom went through civil rights; my dad went through civil rights. My name was Kenya because they wanted to give me an African name.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The acknowledgement and celebration of Juneteenth as an American and possibly international holiday is something that I would put in the life goals column for me.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm doing another pilot about a black Democratic pundit who's married to a white Republican pundit. And the purpose of me wanting to do that show - and ABC sort of supported me in the way they did - is because I feel like, you know, the political system is like an old married couple.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tried to do Kwanzaa with my family and was like, 'This sucks. What am I doing this for?' For me, I felt like I was doing it because I was trying to live up to someone else's idea of what 'black' was.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
Basketball is what got me out of the projects. It got my momma the house she never had, the car she never had. Nobody is going to get the best of me. You might score more points than me, but you're going to know you were in a dogfight.
- Pretty
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I'm pretty coachable. I do what coaches ask of me.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020