"I think often if people don't have a lot of experience with a particular type of person or a particular type of brain, they can make dangerous assumptions. That's one of the reasons that I'm so interested in contradicting and troubling held thoughts about black women."

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Source : "There’s Poetry About Beyoncé Now - And It’s Amazing". Interview with Becca Andrews, www.motherjones.com. February 15, 2017.

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“It is essential for the good of criticism that both the critic and the public face the fact that a review is not the voice of God.”

Source : "Judith Crist: The Lady Has No Respect" by William Rice in The Tuscaloosa News (p. 10), November 23, 1968.
“I don't get high, but sometimes I wish I did. That way, when I messed up in life I would have an excuse. But right now there's no rehab for stupidity.”
“Every time you speak right, you are training yourself to think right and act right.”
“Sixteen Tons was written eight years before I recorded it.”
“Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I appreciate life, talk a lot, love to laugh, and am very optimistic.”
“The image of keys (plural) perhaps suggests not so much the porter, who controls admission to the house, as the steward, who regulates its administration (Is 22:22, in conjunction with 22:15). The issue then is not that of admission to the church (which is not what the kingdom of heaven means; see pp. 45-47) but an authority derived from a delegation of God's sovereignty.”
“I've always been open. That's made my resume. I go with what happens, and then I try to make good choices with what I get offered.”

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