Barika Williams Quotes & Sayings

There's a hunger in me that always wants to be creating and orating, telling people something and giving them information and getting feedback. There are so many questions that I'm trying to ask, and I'm still so far from being done saying what I gotta say. — Chance The Rapper

We contrast the urban and the natural, but that's a contemporary myth. We're animals, after all; our cities are organic products, fully as "natural" (whatever that word really means) as a termite hill or a rabbit warren. But how much more interesting: how much more complex, dressed in the intricacies and exfoliations of human culture, simple patterns iterated into infinite variation. And full of secrets, beyond counting. — Robert Charles Wilson

She made one mistake," he kept repeating. "She forgot to change her earrings. She has the same earrings on." The prosecutor was so dramatic. The scene was straight out of the movies. You could tell he had been watching the late show. Both the woman in the bank and i had on hoop earrings. When Stanley summed up, he just said, "Will all the women in the courtroom who have on hoop earrings, please stand up?" Half the women rose to their feet. — Assata Shakur

I'm one of those rare breed of rock n' rollers with a brain, probably because the brain's still intact. — Suzi Quatro

You can't always be around, Jax." "For you, Lily, I can. I'm always here for you. You know that. — Ellie Wade

Society has to get a grip and put a tax on carbon. Of course, there is much that flows from that, and it is a complex situation. The small details of something such as climate change are political and social, and they are a lot about fairness and how we rebalance towards a fairer society. — Richard Rogers

It feels bad to feel like you're not wanted. — Joe Namath

Unfortunately, very few governments think about youth unemployment when they are drawing up their national plans. — Kofi Annan

Tony Blair is paid $500,000 for one speech, and no one asks how he is going to spend it. — Mo Ibrahim

I'm not going to just do a dumb zombie movie, although I love zombie movies. — Sam Rockwell

A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion. — Barbra Streisand

I had always hoped that the younger generation receiving their early impressions after the flame of liberty had been kindled in every breast ... would have sympathized with oppression wherever found, and proved their love of liberty beyond their own share of it. — Thomas Jefferson

Not everyone is allotted the chance to become a personality; most remain types, and never experience the rigor of becoming an individual. But those who do so inevitably discover that these struggles bring them into conflict with the normal life of average people and the traditional values and bourgeois conventions that they uphold. A personality is the product of a clash between two opposing forces: the urge to create a life of one's own and the insistence by the world around us that we conform. Nobody can develop a personality unless he undergoes revolutionary experiences. The extent of those experiences differs, of course, from person to person, as does the capacity to lead a life that is truly personal and unique. — Hermann Hesse

I'd love to perform with other actors and act with actors, true actors. I would like to be in a movie and have full room for acting. — Xavier Dolan

People think I'm trying to make a fashion statement because I never wear a bra. It's really that I'm a tomboy at heart. — Cameron Diaz