Akeelah And The Bee Quotes

#1. When I was a kid, people people would always say, 'Oh you look like Chilli from TLC.' It wasn't until I did 'Akeelah and the Bee' that people started saying I looked like Angela Bassett, but before then it was Chilli.

Keke Palmer

#2. I liked the way that repetition wears things smooth, and there was something of the river stone to Iggie's stories.

Edmund De Waal

#3. The prison-industrial complex and the military-industrial complex are here with us and are multi-billion dollar enterprises. We can make more money off the kid in Compton if he's a criminal instead of a scholar. It's business.

Henry Rollins

#4. Nature herself is not always unambiguous. Sometimes a girl child may have so well-developed a clitoris that it is assumed she is a boy. Likewise, many male children may be underdeveloped, or their genitals deformed or hidden and it is assumed that they are girls.

Germaine Greer

#5. When a child is forced to prove himself as capable, results are often disastrous. A child needs love, acceptance, and understanding. He is devastated when confronted with rejection, doubts, and never ending testing.

Virginia Mae Axline

#6. I'm always on Netflix. They got 'Breaking Bad!' How can you say no to that?

Tony Oller

#7. You can't win with sin.

Fraser Young