#me

Public interest in most of the Middle East was slight at that time; the Arab-Israeli conflict was all that people were interested in and that was not my specialty. ↗

— Juan Cole

#east #interest #interested #middle #middle east

I am an American citizen and feel I am entitled to the same rights as any other citizen. ↗

— Nat King Cole

#american #american citizen #any #citizen #entitled

I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other Negro entertainers from the South. ↗

— Nat King Cole

#entertainers #frighten #guinea #guinea pig #hurt

I see my albums as working diaries, as living scrapbooks of me and my life. ↗

— Paula Cole

#diaries #i #i see #life #living

I just want to do something risque for my debut, purely because I didn't want to make an entrance being the pretty, sweet type that I've been seen as for the last 3 years. ↗

— Holly Valance

#been #being #debut #entrance #i

Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work. ↗

— Nat King Cole

#good #make #only #only time #plenty

I went to Julliard and we did a lot of mask work there, and I remember thinking in class, 'When am I ever going to use this?' ↗

— Benjamin Walker

#class #did #ever #going #i

The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things. ↗

— Nat King Cole

#colored #come #ease #got #just

They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time. ↗

— Dorothy Day

#cannot #lay #must #see #step

Whether you've done anything wrong or not people will write whatever they want, so it's just a matter of not reading it, not buying into it, and hopefully the people that do read it realise that it's just fictional stories for entertainment. ↗

— Holly Valance

#buying #done #entertainment #fictional #hopefully