Esther Rolle Quotes

#1. You have to fall in love with yourself first, and if someone wants to join you, more power to them!

Tyler Oakley

#2. I ruffle a lot of feathers. And I'm also selective - that makes you a troublemaker. But so be it. I laid a cornerstone for black actors, and that makes me happy.

Esther Rolle

#3. I don't take roles I can't respect. If I can't find a reason to be respectful of the character, I won't do it because I couldn't do it justice.

Esther Rolle

#4. I had a wonderful father, and I couldn't bear that television virtually ignored black fathers.

Esther Rolle

#5. I'm not so in love with material things that I'll do anything for money. That allows me the luxury of doing things of value.

Esther Rolle

#6. We feel we have to put concrete on every inch of land. It disturbs the ecology, and it takes away the experience of a child going out into the woods and seeing all of nature.

Esther Rolle

#7. In Italy, there are so many significant architectural structures in history such as the Pantheon in Rome, or the Duomo.

Tadao Ando

#8. I'm glad to take on the role of a domestic because many of your black leaders, your educators, your professionals came from domestic parents who made sacrifices to see that their children didn't go through what they did.

Esther Rolle

#9. There's more than one mosque in the world that used to be a church and before that was a temple. Because it's a lot easier to just change the sign on the top and say under new management than it is to change the whole building.

Bill Maher

#10. Black college-educated people got to where they are on the backs of domestic help, meaning their parents and grandparents. So people should not forget how they got to where they are.

Esther Rolle

#11. The mind creates so many temptations - so alluring they are, so magnetic is their power - that unless you are in the power-field of someone whose magnetism is far more powerful than any other kind of temptation, it is impossible to reach. That is the meaning of disciplehood.

Rajneesh

#12. There are too many literati, yet very few are smart; knowledge is acquired far too easily.

Dejan Stojanovic

#13. I told them [the producers] I couldn't compound the lie that Black fathers don't care about their children. I was proud of the family life I was able to introduce to television.

Esther Rolle

#14. I don't know that I want to share all my most intimate secrets.

Tom Stoppard

#15. The spontaneous reproduction of superimposed needs by the individual does not establish autonomy; it only testifies to the efficacy of the control.

Herbert Marcuse

#16. Vacuuming is great. I do the laundry. I love washing machines. I'm the maid in my house.

Denis Leary

#17. My mother grew up with each of her children - whatever your age, that's the age she'd be when she listened to your stories. She never belittled our problems. It made for something permanent and reliable.

Esther Rolle

#18. But questions that don't answer themselves at the very moment of their asking are never answered.

Franz Kafka

#19. I don't play Hollywood maids, the hee-hee kind of people who are so in love with their madam's children they have no time for their own.

Esther Rolle