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"There's a high school in Camden, New Jersey, I call the Jill Scott School. It's the Camden Creative Arts High School. Those teachers and kids are so passionate about what they do, and 98 percent of the senior class went on to college."
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"I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor."
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"The middle class were invented to give the poor hope; the poor, to make the rich feel special; the rich, to humble the middle class."
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"But I do not admit the comparison between your slaves and even the lowest class of European free labourers, for the former are allowed the exercise of no faculties but those which they enjoy in common with the brutes that perish."
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"Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and the Vicar of a village in Kent."
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"I like leaping around on stage as long as it's done with class. None of this jumping up in the air and doing the splits."
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"Clinton left the White House with all the class of an XFL halftime show."
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"The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide."
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"And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman."
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"I was always the class clown."
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"Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future."
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"Lately I've been going to all these high schools talking to the students, answering their questions, listening to what they have to say. It has been an incredible journey to be around them and try to give them what my mother gave me."
Mother
"When I was growing up, my mother would take me to plays and museums, and we'd talk about life. Those times helped shape who I became."
Life
"God is ever present. He's in every breath, in every step. He's here, always, always."
God
"There's a high school in Camden, New Jersey, I call the Jill Scott School. It's the Camden Creative Arts High School. Those teachers and kids are so passionate about what they do, and 98 percent of the senior class went on to college."
Class
"Power doesn't have to be on such a big scale for powerful things to occur. Within your own home, you can be a powerful woman as a mother, influencing your children's lives."
Power
"The artists who stand out to me have a passion for what they do. There are a lot of people who can sing. It's just like when you go to church and people are singing because it sounds good, not because it feels good. There's a difference."
People
"You have to be humble when you're dealing with God."
God
"Mos Def is one of the most creative, intelligent human beings I've had the opportunity to work with. He is fun. The entire time, he would go in and out of different characters, just for the fun of it. Awesome energy."
Work
"To be a queen of a household is a powerful thing."
Queen
"When I first became famous, I didn't know if I could go where I wanted to because I didn't know how people were going to act. Some folks would scream and holler, and I didn't know what to do with that."
People
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