Quotes by Cree Summer - Page 1

I always wanted to be a rock star.
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Rock Star
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I'm really fascinated by the moon.
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Fascinated
Moon
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I grew up in a house made out of mud.
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Mud
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I like to look at the skyline and the moon.
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Moon
Skyline
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I slept in closets and on floors for a long time.
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Closets
Time Long Long Time
Floors
Slept
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I started school in the 4th grade and it was a real drag.
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Drag
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I know to shut up when I don't know what I'm talking about.
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Shut Up
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It it weren't for HBCUs, 'A Different World' wouldn't exist.
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Different World
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I'm appreciating the little bitty things that make me happy.
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Me Happy Things
Appreciating
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I was reading 'The Prophet' on my own when I was 10 years old.
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Prophet
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I wanted to be in a rock band. That's all I ever wanted to do.
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Rock Band
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With acting it was never a real passion or inspiration of mine.
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Real Passion
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When you hang out with yourself, you learn to keep yourself in check.
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Check
Hang
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We need our HBCUs. The youth need our HBCUs. The elders need our HBCUs.
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Elders
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My journey is not to be a star but to become as aware a person as possible.
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My Journey
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My imagination works well because I didn't have a boob tube for a baby-sitter.
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Tube
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Art is a gift and if nobody hears it, that doesn't make it any less of a gift.
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Nobody
Less
Hears
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I guess when you come from a supportive family they always expect the best of you.
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Supportive
Best Family Always
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The Indians are a civilization wrought with culture and a beautiful, deep spirituality.
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Spirituality
Indians
Wrought
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My generation spends too much time in the mirror and not enough looking inside ourselves.
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My Generation
Too Much Time
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When I was 19 my friends dared me to come to Los Angeles and see if I could make it down here.
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If I Could
Dared
Me See Down
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Usually cartoon characters stay a certain age; that's part of their appeal. Usually they don't grow up.
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Age
Cartoon
Certain
Appeal
Cartoon Characters
Certain Age
Part
Stay
Grow Up
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My father said, 'Let's raise our child in a paradise instead of a parking lot,' and that's what they did.
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Parking
Parking Lot
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A lot of political things would have to dramatically change in this planet for a woman of color to be carefree.
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Carefree
Color
Lot
Woman
Dramatically
Planet
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I've always been proud to be different, I've always stood out like a sore thumb and I always have not given a damn.
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Damn
Be Different
Sore
Stood
Thumb
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I was raised on an Indian reservation, and I didn't see a television set till I was 10, so it's not a part of my life.
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Indian
Raised
Life My Life Television
Till
Reservation
Television Set
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I didn't know about competition until I got to school. I didn't know how degrading it was to be graded until I got to school.
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Degrading
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I don't know a single black girl who's carefree because it ain't easy being a girl of color, period. God, I wish we were carefree.
Cree Summer /
Girl
Being A Girl
Black
Carefree
Color
Easy
Single
Wish
Period
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When I'm working with strangers, I can get a little timid or scared. With friends, I'm willing to' try anything, because there's a lot of trust involved.
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Involved
Scared
Willing
Strangers
Timid
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People say to me, 'Ooh, L.A. is so plastic.' Sure, it's mountains to the right, oceans to the left and pretense in the middle, but who... has to hang out in the middle?
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Plastic
Pretense
Me People Right
Oceans
Ooh
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I was in the 4th grade, and one day I didn't want to be in class. My father had just gotten a new Harley-Davidson, and he came and took me out of class. He said it was too beautiful to be indoors, so we stayed out all day.
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All Day
Beautiful Me Day
Indoors
Stayed
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If anybody knows how to be friends, it's black women. We have been enslaved and had to care for each other and each other's babies and pick each other up in so many powerful ways. We know to take care of each other, we know how to be friends.
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Babies
Enslaved
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Being in the body of an African-American woman, I prefer animation. I get to be everybody. I don't have to always be the white girl's best friend. I can be the princess. I can make an inanimate object come to life. I can be a little boy. I can be anything.
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Best Friend
Girl
Best
African American
Animation
Body
Princess
White
Little
Life Best Always
Come
Boy
Prefer
Woman
Friend
Inanimate
Object
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