Grace Gealey The greatest lesson I have learned in life is that I am enough simply because I have been given life. Growing up, I constantly found myself trying to please others because I wanted to be included and validated. I expended myself completely. – Grace Gealey Completely Quotes Constantly Quotes Expended Quotes Growing Quotes Included Quotes Learned Quotes Lesson Quotes Life Quotes Simply Quotes Validated Quotes Are we truly being our sisters’ keepers? Initially, that dog-eat-dog mentality within us may bark and say that we aren’t responsible for other people, but if that was truly the case, then why are we even here? We have so much to offer and give to this world. Empire’ deals with the black experience, the human experience, sibling rivalry, what it feels like to be ignored or doted upon by a parent, illness, death. There are so many things that I think the audience can identify with.
Boz Scaggs I feel fortunate that I was able to step away from it when I wasn’t interested. – Boz Scaggs
Roddy Ricch I want to make people think about certain things or have them ask the question of ‘why.’ I just want to always keep the people wondering. – Roddy Ricch
Gregory Porter I was in rehab for nine months, and I needed some solace and distraction. I was in town one day and I sort of stumbled into a jazz jam session, and kept going back. – Gregory Porter
Claire Messud I’m not a writing group member, not a joiner in that way. I don’t seek a wide swath of feedback. – Claire Messud
Martina Navratilova We’re criminalizing economic inability to stay out of the system. Women get penalized more than men for the same crime; blacks get penalized more than whites for the same crime. We need to bring out more into the light, because it’s not fair… I applaud Colin Kaepernick for speaking out. – Martina Navratilova
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