Tracie Thoms famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

It's amazing that it's considered revolutionary to wear my hair the way it grows out of my head.
-- Tracie Thoms

#Hair #Way #Revolutionary
People can graduate from beauty school and know everything about white hair and nothing about African-American hair.
-- Tracie Thoms

#School #White #Hair
I think theater will always be my first love. Ive been doing it since I was nine, and theres nothing quite like being on stage, having the immediate intake of energy and exchange of ideas.
-- Tracie Thoms

#First Love #Thinking #Ideas

Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrist? And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists? And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air? Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair.
The minds of stone lovers had colonised stones as lichens clung to them with golden or grey-green florid stains. The human world of stones is caught in organic metaphors like flies in amber. Words came from flesh and hair and plants. Reniform, mammilated, botryoidal, dendrite, haematite. Carnelian is from carnal, from flesh. Serpentine and lizardite are stone reptiles ; phyllite is leafy-green.
A comedy is just a tragedy interrupted, I once said. Do you finish with the kiss or when she opens her eyes to tell him she loves him and sees blonde hairs on his collar?
I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit. "No," said Pooh humbly, "there isn't. But there was going to be when I began it. It's just that something happened to it along the way.
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
She didn't know then that life has a way of backing you into a corner. You make your choices when you're far too young to understand their implications, and with each choice you make the field of possibility narrows. You choose a career and other careers are lost to you. You choose a mate and commit to loving no other.
Loving ourselves is a revolutionary act!
Tell the truth as you understand it. If you're a writer, you have a moral obligation to do this. And it is a revolutionary act - truth is always subversive.
To tell the truth is revolutionary.
Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.

Tracie Thoms famous quotes

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