"Often hair is the way we are differentiated in this culture. To me the decision to straighten your hair is deeply political."

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Source : "Your Race, Your Looks". Glamour's Women, Race and Beauty panel, www.glamour.com. February 3, 2008.

Jami Floyd

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“We were really responsive. It was very personalized for the die-hards that did watch, and I thought that would be a big draw, too.”
“An American economist of two generations ago, H. J. Davenport, who was the best friend Thorstein Veblen ever had (Veblen actually lived for a time in Davenport's coal cellar) once said: "There is no reason why theoretical economics should be a monopoly of the reactionaries." All my life I have tried to take this warning to heart, and I dare call it to your favorable attention.”
“Laypeople are a kind of nuclear energy in the Church on a spiritual level. A layperson caught up with the gospel and living next to other people can "contaminate" two others, and these two, four others, etc. Since lay Christians number not only tens of thousands like the clergy but hundreds of millions, they can truly play a decisive role in spreading the beneficial light of the gospel in the world.”
“I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.”
“O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An' foolish notion.”
“Compassion is no substitute for justice.”
“It's not often that an English drummer gets an Oscar. So I'm very, very proud of that.”
“I have some flamboyant outfits. It wouldn't be me if I didn't. But I'm married now. I'm not allowed to wear those outfits.”

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