Quotes About Dorothy Dandridge

#1. Just to be true to myself, which is why I did this movie. I figured everyone was going to freak out and say, 'Why would you do that after Dorothy Dandridge?' My answer is 'Because I can.' And that feels really good to be comfortable saying that.

Halle Berry

#2. If I were white, I could capture the world.

Dorothy Dandridge

#3. In any trade, you needed to make the other fellow think he was getting something extra,

Robert Jordan

#4. [Sexual abuse] is such a sharp, potent topic that we really should have discussions about more openly and more often.

Rachael Taylor

#5. It [prejudice] is such a waste. It makes you logy and half-alive. It gives you nothing. It takes away.

Dorothy Dandridge

#6. I knew I loved you when I kept trying to run away and find reasons why it wouldn't work

John Geddes

#7. There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books.

John Hersey

#8. The great challenge is to refuse to let the bad things that happen to us do bad things to us. That is the crucial difference between adversity and tragedy.

Neal A. Maxwell

#9. In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again.

Lewis Carroll

#10. Happiness is the intoxication produced by the moment of poise between a satisfactory past and an immediate future, rich with promise.

Ella Maillart

#11. Despair did not suit her looks. Goodness cannot cope with badness - it's too good, you see, too stupidly good.

Carol Shields

#12. 90% of success in life is showing up

Woody Allen

#13. I can't play a slave.

Dorothy Dandridge

#14. Starting young has definitely helped my success. All the experience I gained by touring with other players as a backing artist helped to prepare me for my own big break.

Vonda Shepard