Negroland Quotes & Sayings

I was wowed by Margo Jefferson's memoir, Negroland, which is about growing up black and privileged in Chicago in the fifties and sixties. It was a window into an alien world. Obviously, I'm not black, but what was really alien to me was her family's focus on respectability. I was never taught when to wear white gloves, what length skirt is appropriate. — Justine Larbalestier

Sometimes I think you can lose the joy in what you do. It becomes a sense of 'I've got to beat him, I've got to beat him,' and you lose your own sense of joy. — Paul Rankin

Irony is the word I forget the meaning of immediately after I look it up, but I kind of feel like I live in a constant state of it. — Maureen Johnson

If companies don't think systemically enough - if they try to capture too much of the value - eventually, innovation moves somewhere else. — Tim O'Reilly

As to why you've got it, silly things help with nerves. — Natasha Pulley

I love being a television actor. I love the relationship that I have with my fans, and all of those things. I'm ready to have a show that really hits big. I'm excited to do another six years or more of a show like I did on 'Reba.' — Joanna Garcia

There are no free lunches in philosophy any more than in real life. — Jaegwon Kim

You should put scent where you like to be kissed. — Catherine Deneuve

I'm planning my most ambitious tattoo yet. You can never have enough tats. — Amy Winehouse

Today there are two points where a car manufacturer has interaction with you as an owner of a car. One, you buy the car. Two, you go to the car shop to repair the car. — Hans Vestberg

The vision ends there, and I stay with it until the same bristle comes, the same bold dreams of transformation. I want to speak, to tell her the word she wanted, and to talk to them with the words I have now, as the husband, the father, the man at last. But the man can't change the boy, and anything I tell them they couldn't hear. — Wayne Harrison

I think I actually made a very kind gesture out of nowhere; I decided in the middle of that match that for every ace I hit I want to donate money. I just think people should honestly look at themselves before they judge another person. I've never been spoiled. I want a Range Rover very bad, but I refuse to spend the money to buy a Range ... The diamonds are borrowed. I won't buy them because I'm too cheap. — Serena Williams

We definitely needed to spend a good solid year just finding ourselves before anyone would even notice us. We had our fan-base growing around here in Los Angeles, but I wouldn't even have wanted anyone to come out to see us that was from a record label or something like that at that time, because we really needed to feel ourselves out as a live band. — Theresa Wayman