#asking

I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep thinker and an irrepressible problem solver. He was a Black Socrates, asking why and then spoiling ready-made replies. ↗

— Walter Mosley

#been #black #brainwashed #completely #deep

When I heard his first songs, Dylan was answering certain questions that I had all my life been asking myself. ↗

— Nana Mouskouri

#asking #been #certain #dylan #first

I'm so touched that complete strangers will send me a script asking me to be in their film. That still amazes me - and sometimes for a lot of money too. ↗

— Liam Neeson

#asking #complete #film #i #lot

I was never challenged when it came to acting as a youngster. I sort of just did whatever was given to me without asking questions. I didn't really understand why I enjoyed it or why I did it. ↗

— Mary-Kate Olsen

#asking #asking questions #came #challenged #did

Everyone keeps asking you for pictures, and after a while you get tired of that. I always say, They are in the archives. ↗

— Annie Leibovitz

#always #archives #asking #everyone #get

Some people might say, 'Can we afford it?' I think that's asking the wrong question... We should instead be asking, 'Can we really afford not to try?' ↗

— Andrew Lo

#asking #i #i think #instead #might

There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#asking #because #black #dismiss #dyke

I was upset with Delbert, because there he was going again and pushing me out in front, without asking me. ↗

— Cheryl Lynn

#asking #because #front #going #i

I speak relatively little, except when I'm at home and I'm asking for things. ↗

— Roger Moore

#except #home #i #little #relatively

The real estate agent had to go door-to-door in the apartment building we wanted to rent, asking if it was OK for this interracial family - my mom is white and I was a 1-year-old half-African kid - to live in the apartment building. ↗

— Tom Morello

#apartment #asking #building #estate #family