Brown Quotes - Page 2

• You could put Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley on one side of the stage, and James Brown on the other, and you wouldn't even notice the others were there!

  Bill Wyman

  Littles, Sides, Culture

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• At a tender age, I commandeered half a quire of foolscap from my father's desk and sat down to write a book. ...I had observed onprinted fly leaves the words "By the author of, etc." ...So under the title of my prospective work I wrote: By the author of "Les Miserables," "The Woman in White," "Dombey and Son," "Tom Brown's Schooldays" and "Our Life in the Highlands," the last-named being an opus of good Queen Victoria. I had not read all these works but they existed on our bookshelves, and I hoped to produce something worthy of comparison.

  Rheta Childe Dorr

  Queens, Father, Book

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• [Michael] Brown's mom, Lesley McSpadden, is the latest African American mother whose tear-streaked face forces the nation to remember the name of yet another unarmed black teenager gunned down under questionable circumstances.

  Jonathan Capehart

  Family, Mom, Mother

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• Each Fall the graves of my grandfathers call me, the brown
  hills and red gullies of mississippi send out their electric
  messages, galvanizing my genes.

  Etheridge Knight

  Fall, Grandfather, Red

  Etheridge Knight (1968). “Poems from prison”

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• If humanity can exist for another million years, everybody's going to be a light shade of yellow-brown-red-tan.

  Joe Mantegna

  Light, Years, Yellow

  "Joe Mantegna on Chicago-style Italian beef and his crush on Errol Flynn". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. July 31, 2015.

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• Race is a lie built on a lie. The first lie is that people are different, somehow skin color or hair texture is more significant than eye color, or the shape of one's feet. The second lie built on top of that is that there's a hierarchy that more significant difference, the color showing up as brown on your skin rather than brown in your hair, or whatever, is somehow more significant and there's some sort of hierarchy. That the lighter you are, the straighter your hair, the better you are.

  Benjamin Jealous

  Lying, Eye, Hair

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Jeri Brown is a rare breed, who can not only produce a wonderful sound, which is expected from a singer, but can also be extremely creative and has the audacity to musically understand all that she is doing.

  Rufus Reid

  Creative, Sound, Audacity

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• Brown for first course, white for pudding. Brown's savoury, white's the treat. Of course I'm the one who's laughing because I actually love brown toast.

  Mark Corrigan

  White, Laughing, Pudding

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• [Jesus Christ] used to have blue eyes but I painted them brown like mine and everybody's, to make him normal.

  NoViolet Bulawayo

  Jesus, Eye, Blue

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• So much happened (in 1968) it was hard to keep up with everything. We had Denny McLain's thirty-one victories, Gates Brown's great pinch-hitting in the clutch, Tom Matchick's home run to beat Baltimore in the ninth inning, then Daryl Patterson striking out the side to beat them in the ninth. Excitement every day in the ballpark.

  Ernie Harwell

  Running, Home, Victory

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• Loving me with my shoes off
  means loving my long brown legs,
  sweet dears, as good as spoons;
  and my feet, those two children
  let out to play naked.

  Anne Sexton

  Sweet, Children, Mean

  Anne Sexton (1999). “Love Poems”, p.35, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Pieta Brown is a great singer/songwriter who possesses major star power magnetism.

  Don Was

  Stars, Singers, Singer-songwriters

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• I think one of the most important American films is "Jackie Brown", which is such a humble depiction of humble characters but so powerful. The film was pure depiction of the American poverty of the 90s.

  Arnaud Desplechin

  Powerful, Humble, Character

  "INTERVIEW: Soul Searching, or Searching for a Soul; Enigmatic Desplechin Returns with 'Esther Kahn'" by Andrea Meyer, www.indiewire.com. February 27, 2002.

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• Autumn
  Into earth's lap does throw
  Brown apples gay in a game of play,
  As the equinoctials blow.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Autumn, Gay, Blow

  Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, “October”

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• Debussy--A pretty girl with one blue eye and one brown one.

  H. L. Mencken

  Music, Girl, Eye

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• Of all the conditions to which the heart is subject suspense is one that most gnaws and cankers into the frame. One little month of that suspense, when it involves death, we are told by an eye witness in "Wakefield on the Punishment of Death," is sufficient to plough fixed lines and furrows in a convict of five and twenty,--sufficient, to dash the brown hair with grey, and to bleach the grey to white.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Eye, Heart, Punishment

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• I don't understand the United Nations. They have selected Iran to sit on the U.N.'s women's rights panel. Iran! Also on the panel - Ben Roethlisberger, Chris Brown, Phil Spector, Robert Blake and committee chairman O.J. Simpson.

  Jay Leno

  Rights, Iran, Blake

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• Show me a man who feels bitterly toward John Brown, and let me hear what noble verse he can repeat. He'll be as dumb as if his lips were stone.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Character, Men, Dumb

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1221, Delphi Classics

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• Of all the men who were said to be my contemporaries, it seemed to me that John Brown was the only one who had not died.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Dying, John Brown

  Henry David Thoreau (1992). “The Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.72, Rowman & Littlefield

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• There's people saying that 'Jackie Brown' was a blaxploitation movie, when there's nothing at all blaxploitation about it other than Pam Grier being in it.

  Michael Jai White

  People, Jackie Brown, Jackie

  "Michael Jai White and Scott Sanders". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. October 23, 2009.

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• God is not merely interestd in the freedom of brown men, yellow men, red men and black men.He is interested in the freedom of the whole human race.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Freedom, Men, Race

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• I foresee the time when the painter will paint that scene, no longer going to Rome for a subject; the poet will sing it; the historian record it; and, with the Landing of the Pilgrims and the Declaration of Independence, it will be the ornament of some future national gallery, when at least the present form of slavery shall be no more here. We shall then be at liberty to weep for Captain Brown. Then, and not till then, we will take our revenge.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Revenge, Rome, Independence

  Henry David Thoreau (2007). “My Thoughts Are Murder to the State: Thoreau's Essays on Political Philosophy”, p.57, David M Gross

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• Any use of the names of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, in connection with any violence or killing of police, is reprehensible and against the pursuit of justice in both cases.

  Al Sharpton

  Names, Justice, Police

  "2 NYPD police officers 'assassinated'; shooter dead" by Joshua Berlinger, Ray Sanchez and Shimon Prokupecz, www.cnn.com. December 20, 2014.

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• Women know, and so do many men, that two or three children who are wanted, prepared for, reared amid love and stability, and educated to the limit of their ability will mean more for the future of the black and brown races from which they come than any number of neglected, hungry, ill-housed and ill-clothed youngsters. Pride in one's race, as will simple humanity, supports
  this view.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Children, Mean, Pride

  Shirley Chisholm (2010). “Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.130, Take Root Media

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• The imagination doesn't crop annually like a reliable fruit tree. The writer has to gather whatever's there: sometimes too much, sometimes too little, sometimes nothing at all. And in the years of glut there is always a slatted wooden tray in some cool, dark attic, which the writer nervously visits from time to time; and yes, oh dear, while he's been hard at work downstairs, up in the attic there are puckering skins, warning spots, a sudden brown collapse and the sprouting of snowflakes. What can he do about it?

  Julian Barnes

  Writing, Dark, Years

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