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Arna Bontemps

"How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored."

Arna Bontemps, American Poet
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"How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored."

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"When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?"

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"It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment."

Honore De Balzac, French Novelist
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"It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning."

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"Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act."

Lord Chesterfield, British Statesman
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"Among other things, the Real ID Act sets minimum security criteria that states would have to meet to have their driver's licenses accepted as identification to board a commercial flight or enter federal facilities."

Elton Gallegly, American Politician
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"What if we all suddenly get carried away thinking - who will be left to act?"

Andrei Platonov, Russian Writer
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"I don't act, anyway. The stuff is all injected as we go along. My pictures are made without script or written directions of any kind."

Buster Keaton, American Actor
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"If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf."

Nikita Khrushchev, Russian Statesman
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"The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical."

Henry George, American Economist
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