- Nov 07, 2020
Speak Quotes
The languages, and limits, people speak within.
A couple of these speak quotes are about language and identity specifically, children translating for family members, and a cultural background where the expected native language was never actually spoken at home. The Language collection covers this in more depth.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Movement
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had formed a black movement, so I would speak for the Trotskyist movement and then walk about a hundred yards to where the black movement was speaking.
- Daughter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have two children. I have a daughter 29, and a daughter four. They are 25 years apart, so you speak about generations and I must tell you, I have a philosophy and that is every 25 years I'm going to sire another child.
- Nov 07, 2020
Somebody has to stand when other people are sitting. Somebody has to speak when other people are quiet.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I go into schools to speak, I am not giving a speech - it's really a one-man show. I call it 'didactic standup.'
- Desire
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- Nov 07, 2020
From the time I could speak, I knew I wanted to have children. It was just an innate desire.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I invite a variety people on my show with wide-ranging opinions - sometimes even my jaw hits the floor, too - but I let them speak. Whether it's left, right, or center, I want to expose my viewers to other perspectives. Agree with them or not, the nation needs to listen.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm more straightforward, and I speak up more than I did before. When I was younger, I wouldn't speak up as much, but now that I'm a mom, things have changed.
- Now
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was younger, I wouldn't speak up as much, but now that I'm a mom, things have changed.
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to be thoughtful when I speak but not edited. I make mistakes, but people like vulnerability.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are so many things we don't know about because they don't get spoken about, and people might be embarrassed to speak up or might be shamed into not speaking up.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd rather let the fiction speak for itself and I don't want to write fiction that tells people how to feel, and I don't want to be judgmental in the fiction.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020