top of page
.png){kind=small}
"I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow."
Standard
Customized
More
"The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I'd have to take off my gloves to prove I was a spade."
Thought
"I never was coddled, or liked, or understood by my family."
Family
"There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing."
People
"All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic."
Life
"I have reason to be shy. I've been hurt plenty."
Hurt
"In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband, it was hard for her to find any place at all for us to live."
Life
"I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever."
Idea
"Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence."
Intelligence
"I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow."
Living
"All my life I've been prejudiced against wealthy people."
Life
More
"Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live and a good day to die. Every day is also an apt time to learn and express joy and love for the entire natural world. Each day is an apt time to make contact with other people and express empathy for the entire world. Each day is perfect to accept with indifference all aspects of being."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I don't think that's changed at all. I think there are a thousand stocks out there that could make you rich, totally independent of what you do for a living."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Raising the minimum wage means raising the living wage - and that's good news for Ohio."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I don't mourn the dead. I mourn the living."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Ideologies do not map the complete living processes of a World."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I wasn't satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I live in New Jersey now, which always gets a bad rap here and there, but I must say, I enjoy living here too."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved."
Author Name
Personal Development
bottom of page