Suzan-Lori Parks quote: "And as you walk yr road, as you live yr life, RELISH THE ROAD. And relish the fact that the road of yr life will probably be a windy road."

My plays aren't stylistically the same. Just being an African-American woman playwright on Broad...
SUZAN-LORI PARKS

I love beautiful black-and-white movies - anything Bette Davis, especially 'Now', 'Voyag...
SUZAN-LORI PARKS

The writing of 'Topdog' was a great gift. I feel the play came to me because I realized that...
SUZAN-LORI PARKS

My plays are for the kind of black people who relate to funk music, to Parliament-Funkadelic. When t...
SUZAN-LORI PARKS

I don't read reviews. I refuse to have my ego inflated or deflated by someone I don't know.
SUZAN-LORI PARKS

I love my lecture tours. I get up onstage. I have my stack of books and a glass of water and a micro...
SUZAN-LORI PARKS

Being a playwright of any race is difficult, and Lord knows it gets more difficult the further you g...
SUZAN-LORI PARKS

One could get locked in by the Pulitzer, thinking, 'This is who I am.' Doors open with it, b...
SUZAN-LORI PARKS

Someone yelled at me once, 'You never write about yourself.' People used to get so mad at me...
SUZAN-LORI PARKS

Congress has an obligation to clear the legal fog by passing my bill to require the federal governme...
SUZAN DELBENE

We don't have a lot of technology people in Congress, so one of the basic things is to help peop...
SUZAN DELBENE

See, don't just look. Your partner is so much more than their appearance. It's how kind their heart ...
SUZAN BATTAH

We must update our country's workplace policies to remain competitive against other developed co...
SUZAN DELBENE

There was nothing truthful about his testimony. And there was nothing to corroborate his story. We t...
SUZAN SZOLLAR

He was just moving his front end, and his hind legs sort of moved shakily behind him, ... It was rea...
SUZAN MURRAY

More and more companies are updating their leave policies to reflect an understanding that being fam...
SUZAN DELBENE

There's nothing like having a football coach yelling at you at homecoming in front of a bunch of...
SUZAN DELBENE

I think we have to be more forward-looking when considering any legislation dealing with technology.
SUZAN DELBENE

Lawmakers need to be better stewards of policy and update it, not just keep adding on top of old law...
SUZAN DELBENE

SXSW has been a melting pot of ideas and policy on immigration, cybersecurity, privacy, Internet of ...
SUZAN DELBENE

You don't want to wake up and find out that your watch was hacked, that your thermostat was hack...
SUZAN DELBENE

Elise ignored her complaints and eased her deeper into the water, until it was almost to her chest. ...
SUZAN TISDALE

He's the incredible expanding panda.
SUZAN MURRAY

Requiring companies to weaken devices with 'back doors' means we open up innocent Americans ...
SUZAN DELBENE

There's nothing like making a decision when you're a football referee. It really pushes you ...
SUZAN DELBENE

Together, Cingular Wireless and Microsoft are working to revolutionize the way people communicate wi...
SUZAN DELBENE

In the more than four decades since Roe v. Wade, it has become clear that some will stop at nothing ...
SUZAN DELBENE

Some of the best preparation I had for coming to Congress is being a football referee. Because you&#...
SUZAN DELBENE

It's clear that the small business tax credit created under the Affordable Care - while well-int...
SUZAN DELBENE

Before she could utter another word, Albert’s voice boomed from the hallway. “I will kill him. I...
SUZAN TISDALE

Josephine placed the cloth back in the basin then filled a cup with cold water. Helping Laurin sit u...
SUZAN TISDALE

He pressed a kiss to her forehead. “Ye be a sight for sore eyes, lass,” he told her. “But we�...
SUZAN TISDALE

A farm bill in Washington State is a jobs bill.
SUZAN DELBENE

It is really important for these guys to get born in captivity, ... We learn a lot from our Chinese ...
SUZAN MURRAY

Government has not been good about being good stewards of policy.
SUZAN DELBENE

In this constantly evolving world, Congress must be a good steward of policy to ensure our laws at l...
SUZAN DELBENE

a very solid water bottle.
SUZAN MURRAY

I see it along our northern border - the importance of security must be balanced with humane enforce...
SUZAN DELBENE

People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I ...
ROSA PARKS

Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and,...
ROSA PARKS

I have never been what you would call just an integrationist. I know I've been called that... In...
ROSA PARKS

It was not pre-arranged. It just happened that the driver made a demand and I just didn't feel l...
ROSA PARKS

Why do you all push us around?
ROSA PARKS

My only concern was to get home after a hard day's work.
ROSA PARKS

Let us look at Jim Crow for the criminal he is and what he has done to one life multiplied millions ...
ROSA PARKS

I don't think well of people who are prejudiced against people because of race. The only way for...
ROSA PARKS

I have been refused entrance on the buses because I would not pay my fare at the front and go around...
ROSA PARKS

As far back as I can remember, I knew there was something wrong with our way of life when people cou...
ROSA PARKS

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing wha...
ROSA PARKS

God has always given me the strength to say what is right.
ROSA PARKS

I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.
ROSA PARKS

The photographer begins to feel big and bloated and so big he can't walk through one of these do...
GORDON PARKS

Make good habits and they will make you.
PARKS COUSINS

How things look on the outside of us depends on how things are on the inside of us.
PARKS COUSINS

Many times I wondered whether my achievement was worth the loneliness I experienced, but now I re...
GORDON PARKS

Whites would accuse you of causing trouble when all you were doing was acting like a normal human be...
ROSA PARKS

You spend your whole lifetime in your occupation, actually making life clever, easy and convenient f...
ROSA PARKS

The Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute accepts people of any race. We don't discriminate against a...
ROSA PARKS

You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery.
GORDON PARKS

There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take... The line between reason a...
ROSA PARKS

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also fre...
ROSA PARKS

I had felt for a long time that, if I was ever told to get up so a white person could sit, that I wo...
ROSA PARKS

I don't think we're going to have an option.
BERNARD PARKS

It's the timing, closeness and proximity,
BERNARD PARKS

Not all the speculation by friends, relatives, prior employees that have some judgment about individ...
BERNARD PARKS

Having known Mr. Patton for a number of years personally, it was a shock to me to find this incident...
BERNARD PARKS

We've had many times when a judge makes decisions that are inaccurate, and that's why we have an app...
BERNARD PARKS

The NFL is going to have a say on who's going to come here. The Coliseum has no role in selecting a ...
BERNARD PARKS

We have taken since September to this date to investigate what Perez has said he has done as an offi...
BERNARD PARKS

We have to be in a situation that understands the importance of some of this evidence, ... There may...
BERNARD PARKS

We're just pleased that he did not carry out a more spectacular plan,
BERNARD PARKS

I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for i...
GORDON PARKS

Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression. We soothe ourselves with the sal...
ROSA PARKS

I was born 50 years after slavery, in 1913. I was allowed to read. My mother, who was a teacher, tau...
ROSA PARKS

I was there less than a year before I was assigned to the Paris bureau. I spent two years there and,...
GORDON PARKS

I've been with Life now for seventeen years and I have written several articles for them and wil...
GORDON PARKS

But I do feel a little teeny right now that I'm just about ready to start, and winter is enterin...
GORDON PARKS

At the time I was arrested I had no idea it would turn into this. It was just a day like any other d...
ROSA PARKS

The band was an extracurricular activity. But Earl had the ability to encourage people and push them...
BOB PARKS

I was so happy to meet an upbeat, understanding person such as Earl Mays because in the time I was a...
BOB PARKS

If this settles the issue and allows us to move on with our business, then that's what I'm going to ...
BOB PARKS

This has become almost surreal. I don't think I'd be much of a person if I allowed one special-inter...
BOB PARKS

That's raised his stock in my eyes.
BOB PARKS

The concept really is driven by need and our need to attract teachers. If we employ about 2,400 new ...
BOB PARKS

A lot of makers and inventors are really proud of their barbecue-powered pool heater, or whatever it...
BOB PARKS

When I read in the newspaper that he was going to Jacksonville, I'd have preferred that he at least ...
BOB PARKS

And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at...
GORDON PARKS

The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.
ROSA PARKS

Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the...
ROSA PARKS

Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it.
ROSA PARKS

My only concern was to get home after a hard day's work.
ROSA PARKS

Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.
ROSA PARKS

It was not pre-arranged. It just happened that the driver made and demand and I just didn't feel lik...
ROSA PARKS

I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and pro...
ROSA PARKS

I knew someone had to take the first step and I made up my mind not to move.
ROSA PARKS

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what mu...
ROSA PARKS

I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better da...
ROSA PARKS

Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over...
ROSA PARKS

Each person must live their life as a model for others.
ROSA PARKS

The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of fai...
GORDON PARKS

It's very sad, very sad, ... He was just as close to me as if he was my own grandson, and I felt tha...
ROSA PARKS

In it not easy to remain rational and normal mentally in such a setting where, even in our airport i...
ROSA PARKS

[Superior Court Judge Bernard J. Schwartz described Parks' relationship as] schoolgirl infatuation ....
CAROL PARKS

Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a h...
GORDON PARKS

Money is available to but people are not applying. We urge people who are eligible to apply now and ...
WENDY PARKS

The man at Kodak told me the shots were very good and if I kept it up, they would give me an exhibit...
GORDON PARKS

Terence was one of the people I was listening to a lot back then. After I worked with him, I thought...
AARON PARKS

He seems enthusiastic about us as instrumentalists and composers. He likes what we do, so he says he...
AARON PARKS

I talked and talked of everything I know about the white man's inhuman treatment of the Negro.
ROSA PARKS

No,
ROSA PARKS

I didn't want to. I didn't think I should have to. I didn't feel that it was the right thing for us ...
ROSA PARKS

You may do that,
ROSA PARKS

It's very sad, very sad,
ROSA PARKS

I heard that she sat down on the bus. That is all that I know. They don't tell you too much about th...
ROSA PARKS

People are exploiting it, ... We are very concerned about that.
ROSA PARKS

I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.
ROSA PARKS

failing to obey the order of bus driver.
ROSA PARKS

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... and other people would be also fr...
ROSA PARKS

I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better da...
ROSA PARKS

I only knew that [as] I was being arrested it was the last time I would ever ride in humiliation of ...
ROSA PARKS

Mother Parks, take your rest.
ROSA PARKS

so that the citizens of the United States may pay their last respects to this great American.
ROSA PARKS

Victory or defeat? It is the slogan of all-powerful militarism in every belligerent nation. And yet,...
ROSA PARKS

Her act of civil disobedience, for which she was willing to pay the price to end the rein of terror,...
ROSA PARKS

She put out a persona that wasn't really her. Once I found out who she really was, I found out she w...
SINGIN PARKS

[The prosecutor played recorded telephone conversations between the couple in which Parks expressed ...
CAROL PARKS

They're winners, everyone!
BERT PARKS

The results in this department reflects a high level of officer enthusiasm to do their job, and that...
BERNARD PARKS

there are very few clues ...
BERNARD PARKS

We can't ignore that the federal government, the FBI, is certainly going to have a role in this,
BERNARD PARKS

We file thousands of cases a year as a police agency, ... We know what the criteria is to file a cas...
BERNARD PARKS

We need the federal government because of a couple of issues, ... We believe that there may be issue...
BERNARD PARKS

We look forward to this partnership, to get to the bottom of, to resolve this scandal,
BERNARD PARKS

I think it's been really successful. You can just tell a lot of kids are really responding.
ASHLEY PARKS

I was always a freak about nature when it came to animals.
ASHLEY PARKS

A lot of people do it on their own because the prices are kind of expensive, like, $50 to get a pier...
AMANDA PARKS

A lot of people do it on their own because the prices are kind of expensive, like $50 to get a pierc...
AMANDA PARKS

It has a lace cap bloom that is not terribly impressive to me. I am waiting to see if the fall color...
LES PARKS

I was just trying to let them know how I felt about being treated as a human being,
ROSA PARKS

the real reason of my not standing up was I felt that I had a right to be treated as any other passe...
ROSA PARKS

At the time I was arrested I had no idea it would turn into this, ... It was just a day like any oth...
ROSA PARKS

Folks need to learn to keep their engine shrouds clean.
MIKE PARKS

The buzzword in the industry is that average recommendations for average conditions provide average ...
SID PARKS

You treated her with deference because she was so quiet, so serene -- just a very special person,
ROSA PARKS

Playboy is an American icon and I am so excited to have been chosen as one of the models for this fe...
RACHEL PARKS

He pointed at me and said, 'that one won't stand up.' The two policemen came near me and only one sp...
ROSA PARKS

When they stood up and I stayed where I was, he asked me if I was going to stand and I told him that...
ROSA PARKS

The Rosa Parks Story.
ROSA PARKS

The Battle Hymn of the Republic.
ROSA PARKS

was that I was a person with dignity and self-respect, and I should not set my sights lower than any...
ROSA PARKS

As far as (South African) President Mandela is concerned, it is immaterial whether the bombing is re...
PARKS MANKAHLANA

I'd become sort of involved in things that were happening to people. No matter what color they b...
GORDON PARKS

I presented a gift card and was (later) informed it had been significantly reduced due to different ...
DAVID PARKS

We used tie wraps around his wrists and legs.
KEN PARKS

You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery. You can show things that you like about the u...
GORDON PARKS

I don't try to make the first move; I always wait for them to make it. He was trying to go for my le...
GORDON PARKS

A Hungry Heart
GORDON PARKS

Success can be wracking and reproachful, to you and those close to you. It can entangle you with leg...
GORDON PARKS

Dreaming is what you do when your eyes are closed...living is what you do with that dream once you o...
NATHAN PARKS

We are working extremely hard to contact our customers to work with them to avoid disconnection. We'...
WENDY PARKS

We are looking at well over 56,000 customers who are in danger of disconnection. However, the good n...
WENDY PARKS

Today, most people tend to judge others more physically than mentally.
RICK PARKS

When death finds you at gunpoint, you should know when you shall leave.
RICK PARKS

The political culture in Arizona is vastly different from New York State. Arizona government is hone...
BILL PARKS

Nowadays you have to worry about your children constantly each day, wherever they go. It is a crap s...
BILL PARKS

We forgot how we got to that point. We're disappointed, we thought we had a chance to scratch one ou...
BILL PARKS

Someone once told me it doesn't hurt to be nice to people and you've certainly proven that is true.
BILL PARKS

He doesn't tell people how to play. Silence is a good thing. If he's happy, he doesn't say much.
AARON PARKS

All I was doing was trying to get home from work.
ROSA PARKS

The only tired I was, was tired of giving in,
ROSA PARKS

Many times I wondered whether my achievement was worth the loneliness I experienced, but now I reali...
GORDON PARKS

I want to go home. They're waiting for me there.
GORDON PARKS

I have a strange feeling back here, ... I can't explain it. It's a strange mixture of the tragedies ...
GORDON PARKS

Nothing came easy. I was just born with a need to explore every tool shop of my mind, and with long ...
GORDON PARKS

she stood up by sitting down. I'm only standing here because of her.
ROSA PARKS

I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand.
GORDON PARKS

I don't understand the rationale used in your March review of the best ISPs. What a nightmare! I hav...
DAVID PARKS

But I was very disappointed that I didn't get a chance to go overseas with that group, might not...
GORDON PARKS

The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer.
GORDON PARKS

Photojournalism provokes conversation and thought, which all good journalism should do. The exhibiti...
MICHAEL PARKS

There's no actions taken on the letters whatsoever,
CAROL PARKS

I think their patience had an effect on us not shooting the ball very well, because we didn't have t...
DENNY PARKS

They're an impressive team, especially on the defensive side. They played a lot harder than we did, ...
DENNY PARKS

I wanted us to play hard for 32 minutes. I thought except for that little three-minute stretch in th...
DENNY PARKS

It was a little bit of a dagger. But, it could have gone the other way and not counted. It was right...
DENNY PARKS

What we're doing now wouldn't hold up in court.
BUDDY PARKS

Boca Raton leads the state of Florida in its provision of outdoor green space to its residents. We w...
BUDDY PARKS

We will surely work with them to provide some linear areas for botanical gardens along trails and bi...
BUDDY PARKS

He started doing one thing and seeing things were getting better. He was able to be in touch with a ...
CHARLES PARKS

He certainly would have felt it was an honor to have his final service in a church he couldn't have ...
CHARLES PARKS

The biggest thing is the architect didn't have a contractor involved on the project from the beginni...
DAVID PARKS

I call the entire report into question.
DAVID PARKS

[And this past Christmas, a friend of Parks' tried to use one at a food establishment.] He presented...
DAVID PARKS

a single question loomed large, dwarfing every fear of death or wounds: What will battle really be l...
DAVID PARKS

You will only have copyright in a society that places a very high value on the individual, the indiv...
TIM PARKS

I really believe God has anointed me to have these talents so one day I'll be able to touch people a...
GEORGE PARKS

I owe this all to Mr. Harris; he's the man. If it weren't for him I wouldn't be here.
GEORGE PARKS

We didn't have the energy to stay in it.
GEORGE PARKS

Come to the meeting with an open mind. Listen to what is being said, even if you don't believe. Just...
GEORGE PARKS

There's another horizon out there, one more horizon that you have to make for yourself and let o...
GORDON PARKS

And as you walk yr road, as you live yr life, RELISH THE ROAD. And relish the fact that the road of yr life will probably be a windy road.

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And as you walk yr road, as you live yr life, RELISH THE ROAD. And relish the fact that the road of yr life will probably be a windy road.

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