- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
You Quotes
Quotes that speak straight to you.
This collection gathers quotes framed around 'you' - from candid reflections on body image pressures passed down in families to observations about how humor can mask real vulnerability. Many touch on how what you know about yourself differs from how others perceive you.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think of dying every day... At a certain age, you should be prepared to go at any time.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pittsburgh is a very hard city, especially if you're black.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't always value the ways black people talked. I thought, in order to make art out of it, you had to change it.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
Blacks in America want to forget about slavery - the stigma, the shame. If you can't be who you are, who can you be? How can you know what to do? We have our history. We have our book, and that is the blues.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you become a parent, it blows you open in ways that you never thought possible in terms of a level of love that I know I never thought I could possibly have.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
All you can do is do good work, and do the good work for the sake of doing the good work and your evolution as an artist. That's what's most important to me.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a lot of traps you can fall into when you are playing someone who existed. If it comes out just as impersonation, that's bad; it has to be an embodiment. You have to live it, not just sound and look like it.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe it's because my uncle and my parents were always very involved with the civil rights movement, so I just grew up and I was raised that you have to speak out and look out for your fellow man, woman, and child.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are lesbians, God knows... if you came up through lesbian circles in the forties and fifties in New York... who were not feminist and would not call themselves feminists.
- Egg
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know how fighting fish do it? They blow bubbles and in each one of those bubbles is an egg and they float the egg up to the surface. They keep this whole heavy nest of eggs floating, and they're constantly repairing it. It's as if they live in both elements.
- Silence
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- Nov 07, 2020