Speak Quotes - Page 15

• I think that America is an ideal place for the privileged homeless, who are used to different cultures. It's easiest and most accommodating because it is a country of exiles and immigrants and newcomers. There are no walls, in that sense. There is always the sense that traditions are being made as we speak. So you can slot yourself in. If you are living at a distance in society, this is one of the most congenial societies to live in.

  Pico Iyer

  Country, Wall, Distance

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• When we start making distinctions between soul and spirit, we're in very, very murky waters. There is the whole issue of the English language, which has a rather limited vocabulary when it comes to psychological descriptions, not to speak of spiritual descriptions. We're good mythically - the English language is superb for myth. But we're not very good for psychology or spirituality.

  Jean Houston

  Spiritual, Issues, Vocabulary

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• I always tell my students the same thing. And that's to live life, and to read very voraciously without any definite program. To travel, to meet people, to talk to people, to listen very carefully, and not interrupt, but listen to their own grandparents speak of their families.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Live Life, Grandparent, People

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• The things I really cared about - poverty, the Great Society, civil rights - were all being drained away by the Vietnam War. The line that keeps running through my mind is the line I never spoke: "I can't speak for a war that I believe is immoral."

  Bill Moyers

  Running, War, Believe

  Source: progressive.org

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• I put a lot of pressure on myself early in my life, like, "You have to be perfect; you can't do anything." You basically can't show any emotion and speak up. And then I realized that I have to live my life for myself.

  Rowan Blanchard

  Perfect, Pressure, Emotion

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When you leave good people afraid to speak on behalf of justice, however awkwardly or insensitively, those unafraid to speak will rise to power.

  C.E. Morgan

  Rise To Power, People, Justice

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• Music is the universal language, it evokes an emotion in all of us. That, we can all look at each other and we may not speak the same language, but that song or that melody can make us feel the same thing. And we can look at each other and agree and be like, "that did something for us". It makes us feel unified and connected.

  Kerry James Marshall

  Song, May, Looks

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• If someone can learn from my experiences, grow from them and take it to the next level or to learn what not to do, that's almost a civil responsibility for your peers but also for those that follow you, support you and don't get a chance to come behind the curtain so to speak.

  Jalen Rose

  Responsibility, Support You, Next Level

  Source: thesource.com

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• I'm the type of spiritual person that doesn't speak openly about their spirituality. Irony is probably my religion.

  Jonathan Raymond

  Spiritual, Irony, Type

  "Jon Raymond’s Californian Epic". Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 1, 2017.

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• I feel like I'm trying to speak in a very loving way or a very nonspecific way. I really just want to talk about peace and love and equality. The fact that anybody couldn't get behind equality or love - those are things that are their problem.

  Jim James

  Trying, And Love, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I ended up becoming a playwright because you can be grammatically incorrect: people speaking in bad poetry or people attempting to speak well and sometimes succeeding and sometimes failing. The whole imperfection of it suddenly felt freeing to me.

  Annie Baker

  People, Imperfection, Succeed

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Audiences always love the baddies. Especially these ones that are so witty and charming and outrageously devious - everything you're not supposed to be. I think it speaks to the basic, primal nature in us.

  Birgitte Hjort Sørensen

  Witty, Thinking, Charming

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When you start doing television, you want a transcript of what you're going to say, and every time I've had to do that, I've looked at it and gone, "That's just not funny." It only comes alive when you speak it.

  John Bishop

  Want, Gone, Television

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When you speak a foreign language, you become someone else. If you aren't used to speaking a language, and you start speaking it again, for the first few sentences you'll find yourself in very strange shape, because you're still the person who was speaking the first language. But if you keep speaking that language, you will become the person who corresponds to it.

  Eugene Green

  Finding Yourself, Shapes, Firsts

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If you see your brother about to be harmed and somebody is doing something, you must speak out. It takes courage to do that. Then you have to come out of yourself to do that.

  Alveda King

  Brother, Speaks Out, Ifs

  Source: saynsumthn.wordpress.com

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• If people are being downtrodden and mistreated, it's our obligation, it's our responsibility to speak out, not just for ourselves but for others.

  Alveda King

  Responsibility, Speaks Out, People

  Source: saynsumthn.wordpress.com

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• When we see others victimized we must speak out. We have to seek justice for everybody.

  Alveda King

  Speaks Out, Justice

  Source: saynsumthn.wordpress.com

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• America's all about the various voices, right? When we all speak with a common voice we verge on fascism, which is militaristic, and fundamentally anti-American.

  Lee Klein

  Voice, America, Common

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• I'm in bed, so to speak, more with those people who consider themselves atheists but who are concerned about the same things, ideas, and politics I'm concerned with than those who claim to be religious in the same way that I am but have no interest in the political reorganization of society, which needs to be talked about from the pulpit.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Religious, Atheist, Ideas

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The aesthetic, as I understand it, is really about the way in which we understand beauty and speak and think about beauty.

  Kwame Dawes

  Thinking, Way, Aesthetic

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When you are out of favor, so to speak, it's not just the reviewers. It's the editors, the publishers, they don't want you anymore, you're just gone and you've been written out of history as effectively as the old Stalinists would write someone else out, take their photograph out of a book.

  Frederic Tuten

  Book, Writing, Editors

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• White people cannot destroy me like they have other big ministers of Elijah Mohammed in the past by telling us oh, you speak good, you should be the leader.

  Muhammad Ali

  Past, White, People

  Source: thefederalist.com

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• Everything I got comes from Elijah Mohammed. He taught me who I was, he made me proud, he made me fearless, he made me love my own, I’ve turned down millions to keep from selling out my people, the beautiful name Mohammed Ali. And white people cannot destroy me like they have other big ministers of his in the past by telling us oh, you speak good, you should be the leader.White people make me thinkin' that I'm smart, and as soon as I leave Elijah you can get me. But as long as I stay with the Honorable Elijah Mohammed I'm safe.

  Muhammad Ali

  Beautiful, Smart, Past

  Source: thefederalist.com

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• I love a statement by the apostle Paul, in the Book of Philippians in the Bible. I think the Corinthians had been writing to Paul, telling him that old men were chasing young women, nobody was tithing - and all that must have run Paul crazy. He wrote back and said, "If there be anything of good report, speak of these things." That's one of my principles.It's another discipline that I encourage myself to employ - to, as much as possible, say the courteous thing, and then be it.

  Maya Angelou

  Running, Crazy, Book

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• It's in my music, and its on my mind all the time. To spread love, healing peace and joy is my mission in life - and so I speak up.

  India.Arie

  Healing, Joy, Mind

  Source: www.ebony.com

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