"I do think that we have to be careful not to assume that getting a perm or wearing a blonde wig is a desire for whiteness. It may or may not be. Listen, I live in a poor black neighborhood where women wear blue hair, green hair, and all kinds of stuff. So, I simply see it as a different set of choices."

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Source : Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

Melissa Harris-Perry

#Thinking Quotes #Blue Quotes #Hair Quotes

“I'm an actor and a playwright, and I don't earn much.”
“In book subjects a student can only do a student's work. All that can be measured is how well he learns, rather than how well he performs. All he can show is promise.”
“Each of us has the potential to contribute ... You have a great opportunity to make a new shape of the world.”
“We live in a dancing matrix of viruses; they dart, rather like bees, from organism to organism, from plant to insect to mammal to me and back again, and into the sea, tugging along pieces of this genome, strings of genes from that, transplanting grafts of DNA, passing around heredity as though at a great party.”

Source : Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”
“You grow up skinny in Canada; in working-class Montreal, you're definitely the underdog.”

Source : "Actor Jay Baruchel: Why I Insisted on a “Butt Double” for New Film". Interview with Bradley Jacobs, www.usmagazine.com. March 12, 2010.
“If I'm one that's afflicted with same-gender attraction, I should strive to see myself in a much broader context... seeing myself as a child of God with whatever my talents may be, whether intellect, or music, or athletics, or somebody that has a compassion to help people, to see myself in a larger setting and thus to see my life in that setting.”
“Communication is the transfer of emotion.”
“He's stepping up to challenge me. Anybody that challenges me, has got to get dogged out. That's my job.”

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