Courtney B Vance When I was a senior in high school, I did an internship with a law firm. And it was very clear that I did not have what it took to do that kind of work. – Courtney B Vance Firm Quotes Internship Quotes Law Quotes School Quotes Senior Quotes From the outside, there’s a lot of glitz. They see you on the red carpet, but they don’t see what it takes to get there. When actors have the opportunity to play a larger-than-life icon – my wife did it with Tina Turner, and Jamie Foxx did it with Ray Charles – you have to make a decision how you go in. What do you start with? Where do you begin?
Bruce Jackson Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive. – Bruce Jackson
Ben Fountain After Bush was elected in 2004 – please note that I didn’t say ‘re-elected’ – and I was walking around in my befuzzed state of confusion and low-grade depression, I set out more or systematically to read writers who’d grappled with that fundamental question of what America is, why it is the way it is. – Ben Fountain
Amanda GormanMom My mom wanted to make sure I was prepared to grow up with Black skin in America. – Amanda Gorman
Kevin Olusola When you think about choir music, that’s a cappella. You have church choir that you would sing without any instrument. I think the popular form that we have now is barbershop in the 20th century, and the collegiate movement. – Kevin Olusola
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