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Being a slave meant never having the stability of knowing your family would be together as many years as God designed it to be. It meant you could come back from picking cotton in a field to find that your children are gone, your husband's gone, your mother's gone.

~Colson Whitehead

Topics: Back Being Children Come Cotton Could Designed Family Field Find God Gone Having Husband Knowing Many Meant Mother Never Picking Slave Stability Together Would Years You Your

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I was allowed to write about race using an elevator metaphor because of Toni Morrison and David Bradley and Ralph Ellison. Hopefully, me being weird allows someone who's 16 and wanting to write inspires them to have their own weird take on the world, and they can see the different kinds of African American voices being published.

~Colson Whitehead

Topics: About African African American Allowed American Because Being David Different Different Kinds Elevator Hopefully Inspires Kinds Me Metaphor Own Published Race Ralph See Someone Take Them Using Voices Wanting Weird World Write

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I have a lot of respect for my fellow young actors. It takes a lot to push forward after being told no a million times, and that was what we all have to go through. So those who push deserve respect.

~Colton Haynes

Topics: Actor After Being Deserve Fellow Forward Go Lot Million Million Times Push Respect Takes Those Through Times Who Young Young Actors

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The contemporary American novelist benefits in a way from being ignored. It makes you angrier and makes you want to go into all of those places where you shouldn't.

~Colum Mccann

Topics: American Being Being Ignored Benefits Contemporary Go Ignored Makes Novelist Places Those Want Way Where You

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I think one of the biggest political failures, and the biggest social failures, over the past few years has been the failure of empathy; not being able to look at the other person down the street.

~Colum Mccann

Topics: Able Been Being Biggest Down Empathy Failure Failures Few Look Other Over Past Past Few Years Person Political Social Street Think Years I Think

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All these years, I found that being a good wife for Jeb is my most important role, no doubt.

~Columba Bush

Topics: Being Doubt Found Good Good Wife Important Important Role Most No Doubt Role Wife Years

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Creating content, creating art, material, being a job creator - it's all very, very important. Very important.

~Columbus Short

Topics: Art Being Content Creating Creator Important Job Job Creator Material Very

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People that I care about, that I consider being friends of mine, most of the things I discuss with them I wouldn't discuss in public because it's a real relationship. It's not a relationship for the public, you know?

~Common

Topics: About Because Being Care Consider Discuss Friends Know Mine Most People Public Real Real Relationship Relationship Them Things You I Care

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Technically, my first acting job was in one of my videos for a song called 'Retrospect For Life,' which Lauryn Hill directed and featured an actress by the name of N'bushe Wright, who played my girlfriend who was about to be pregnant. I remember being so nervous about it, but now I feel like I can conquer the world with it.

~Common

Topics: About Acting Actress Being Conquer Directed Featured Feel First Girlfriend Hill Job Life Like Name Nervous Now Played Pregnant Remember Retrospect Song Technically Videos Which Who World Wright I Remember I Feel I Can I Feel Like

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What America was built on was being able to say, 'Hey, we're going to come in and use our resources to build for ourselves and our communities and build around that. We're not going to depend on others.'

~Common

Topics: Able America Around Being Build Built Come Communities Depend Going Hey Others Our Ourselves Resources Say Use

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