Selma James Quotes

#1. I worked with James Orange and Hosea Williams as a teenager, and he's portrayed in the movie by Wendell Pierce. So, for me to be able to come in, 20 years after working with them as a teenager, and to portray Reverend James Orange in 'Selma' is mind-blowing.

Omar Dorsey

#2. Marriage is a bargain, and somebody has to get the worst end of the bargain.

Helen Rowland

#3. I'm anxious about work, the future, friendships, past relationships ... I'm just one of those people that, whatever I'm doing, it's a big worry.

Conor McPherson

#4. Why should I pray? Why should I venerate and be ceremonious?

Walt Whitman

#5. I tested in the top percentile for IQ, but I couldn't tie my shoes or really ride a bike without training wheels until I was almost 7.

Stephen Rodrick

#6. It is not women's fault if we are so tender. It is in the nature of the lives we live. And further, it would be a terrible catastrophe if men had to live men's lives and women's also. Which is precisely what has happened today
to women.

Selma James

#7. Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves.

Eric Sevareid

#8. Shoot for the moon, even if you fail, you'll land among the stars

Cecelia Ahern

#9. While shooting 'Selma,' I would train on my off time with the assistant men's track and field coach at Georgia Tech.

Stephan James

#10. Having the children you want, not having the children you don't want but in order to do that you have to have the right to abortion and the right to pay equity, those two give you choice. One or the other does not.

Selma James

#11. Being a director or a conductor is a balance of many things. And to do it right is a very difficult tightrope to walk. I've come to the conclusion that there's really no way to be one hundred percent popular as conductor.

Joshua Bell

#12. The United States is in many ways the biggest ghetto in the world.

Selma James

#13. We have needed to define ourselves by reclaiming the words that define us. They have used language as weapons. When we open ourselves to what they say and how they say it, our narrow prejudices evaporate and we are nourished and armed.

Selma James

#14. Revolutions are notorious for allowing even non-participants
even women!
new scope for telling the truth since they are themselves such massive moments of truth, moments of such massive participation.

Selma James