"I'd rather play a maid than be one."

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Source : "Oscar's First Black Winner Accepted Her Honor in a Segregated 'No Blacks' Hotel in L.A." by Seth Abramovitch, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 19, 2015.

Hattie McDaniel

#Play Quotes #Maids Quotes

“There's a great freedom of forms and intonations in Luigi Fontanella's poetry. He doesn't take a strong formal stand; his poetry entertains moments of nearly proselike colloquial narrative along with moments of powerful lyrical tension. There is a movement of extremes, from powerful tonality to near atonality, and I like this a great deal; it's a stance that very effectively catches the spirit that makes work in poetry possible nowadays.”
“Because it's magic, this place . . . beautiful. And you're beautiful . . . beautifully separate. It all fits.”

Source : Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.28, Scholastic Inc.
“If I had listened to the critics I'd have died drunk in the gutter”
“They grow stiff in the joints. They get in a rut. They go to seed.”
“I think people have a misconception of me, period. My life has been a whirlwind sometimes, but it's different to what people think. I definitely feel like there's a misconception about me and who I am.”
“And yet, just for a moment, what almost frightening power had sounded in that cry from only a few hundred throats! Why was it that they could never shout like that about anything that mattered?”
“So why are we having to fight in 2012 against politicians who want to end access to birth control? It's like we woke up in a bad episode of 'Mad Men.”

Source : "Cecile Richards DNC speech". www.politico.com. September 5, 2012.
“Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.”

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