Issa Rae
Related ISSA RAE Awkward silences rule the world. People are so terrified of awkward silences that they will literall... STEFAN MOLYNEUX RICK RIORDAN I'm an American, and always will be. I happen to love that big, awkward, sprawling country very ... JAMES JONES I don't care if I'm cool or not. I've always been an awkward person anyway. CHRIS CARRABBA The officials still get us confused. It's awkward being a twin. Sometimes it's hard because you want... AMANDA EVANS CAROLINE GEORGE ANNIE PARISSE MEG CABOT LIONEL SHRIVER I never saw pictures of black people portrayed in a positive vein -- of young black people going to ... ZAKIYYAH MUHAMMAD Certainly I feel like I'm the tip of the arrow at times because certainly the national media wan... TIM SCOTT ISSA RAE JOHN GREEN As humans, we are all insecure to a certain degree, and we don't want to risk looking stupid, being ... SUSAN C. YOUNG AVA DUVERNAY CYNTHIA HAND People don't mind insulting the tall. We're supposed to be fine with being awkward and skinn... STEPHEN MERCHANT ADAM BRODY The United States is not a nation of black and white people. Any fool can see that white people are ... ALBERT MURRAY The commission is being put in an awkward situation through irresponsibility. HUSSEIN HINDAWI The cracks in old friendships are measured in awkward pauses. DARIN STRAUSS Between memory and reality there are awkward discrepancies... EILEEN CHANG Awkward interests me, he said. At least when you are feeling awkward you are always thinking. When y... ELIZABETH BRUNDAGE JOHN KEATS AUDRE LORDE RANDALL KENNEDY DAVID TENNANT ISSA RAE ...within the souls of the awkward and the overlooked often burns something radiant. JO ANN BEARD DANIEL RADCLIFFE BARACK OBAMA People still come in sometimes expecting the previous business to still be in business. It's kind of... BOB HUGHES A lot of times, we talk about black people as if being black is all they are. They get up, go to wor... MARGOT LEE SHETTERLY CHARLIE BROWN There are moments in life where I wonder whether things can get worse. I'm on a plane, with my new h... CHRISTINA LAUREN AIMEE TEEGARDEN We don't want people that don't agree with alcohol to feel awkward. BILL HISLE TREVOR NOAH I've always recognized as high commissioner the importance of standing up to bullies, addressing sho... MARY ROBINSON AIMEE TEEGARDEN I always thought white people.were white because they stood in the cold to long, and froze.
And blac... SONYA.E.WILLIAMS JOHN GREEN TERRY PRATCHETT That's been a little awkward, RAY ANDERSON It's not that heavy, but it's very awkward to handle. SCOTT HANSEN I spent seven months in Africa and came back saying there isn't anything you can say about black peo... LARRY RIVERS Horses are like people - they have different personalities. They can be nice, friendly and hard-work... TONY MCCOY CLAIRE DANES BELL HOOKS I wanted to do a movie about being really good at something, yet being socially awkward and not as a... ALICIA WITT Judex is an awkward customer, DAVE STEWART People will always prefer black-and-white over shades of grey, and so there will always be the tempt... THOMAS GILOVICH The timing is a little awkward. CHARLES MOORE It was awkward, while a contest was still under way, ... But those constraints are off and we're mov... RICHARD CHENEY First dates are awkward, first kisses are heavenly, first love
is irreplaceable and first heartbreak... OLASOT He came to show he's down with the black people, and that's cool. KARIMA LATIFAH I'm against an all-white anything or an all-black anything. CHARLES EVERS DANIEL RADCLIFFE It was kind of awkward seeing her and having all those other people there looking on. So we didn't g... CARLOS CASILLAS We know that listening to Black Veil Brides, wearing Black Veil Bride shirts, or being in Black Veil... ANDY BIERSACK Are black people conscious of how excruciatingly self-conscious white people have become in their ev... DAVID SHIELDS Black is very strong this season, especially black head-to-toe in varying textures. Black outfits ar... BETSY THOMPSON I think he felt as awkward as I did. SHAWN VARNEY Color can do anything that black-and-white can. VINCENTE MINNELLI Black is best worn as an ensemble - black with black. Black with color is not quite where we are rig... GREGG ANDREWS SIDNEY CROSBY Right now, black female artists are the most interesting people to think about. People are ready to ... TINK Wow, he's in an awkward position. CHARLES ELSON My kind of awkward is intentional. DEDRICK D. L. PITTER All our dreams can manifest in life not because we are white or black,but because we believe. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate... EDEN AHBEZ CARL SAGAN Being glamorous is about strength and confidence. It's black and white - dramatic. You have to b... CATHERINE ZETA-JONES We are in the awkward position of not being able to expand our trainer base, whilst training facilit... CHRIS NOLAN AVA DUVERNAY Metaphor is awkward, but emotion, by its nature, leaves you no more scalable approach. RACHEL HARTMAN KEN FOLLETT My mum is black, my dad is white, and when I was a teenager, people would say, 'So what are you?... FLEUR EAST Nothing is so awkward as a demonstration of humanity by the enemy. KōBō ABE It will be hard to shoot the ibis because people will certainly say we are being cruel and try to st... MATTHIEU VASLIN You have a problem with me? Let me know, otherwise I'll assume we're cool and that's just awkward. SIENNA D. JULIETTE LEWIS It's only awkward if you let it be. SILVIA DONAHUE Melanin is an incomparable beauty. From the lightest to the darkest skin tone, Black women and Black... STEPHANIE LAHART Rap was started by black people and, thus, is at the foundation of black culture. So people cannot a... AWKWAFINA I would say I'm black because my parents said I'm black. I'm black because my mother'... SOLEDAD O'BRIEN Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate... EDEN AHBEZ Sometimes people need a little boost of self-confidence. Networking is not something you should be n... FRANK MCLAUGHLIN I always believed I was an ugly duckling in a family of swans, you know? I was such a black sheep, a... LINDSAY PEARCE I spent seven months in Africa and came back saying there isn't anything you can say about black... LARRY RIVERS Black people are beginning to exercise our freedom. CIARA HENRY People think black is one color and it's not. There are blue-blacks, brown-blacks, metallic blacks, ... BONNIE YOUNG We want to live in the black and white, but we don't. The world is gray. And, I'm always fas... TONY GOLDWYN There is a class system in acting just like in anything else. Black females fall in a category below... DEBRA WILSON I'm so socially awkward. I really had to put myself out there and meet new people. BELLA HADID MARIAH CAREY Being a black artist, the first thing people want to talk about is your blackness, the importance of... TOYIN ODUTOLA It's an awkward issue to raise because much of these things are grounded in boosting team morale and... LEO SANDON CRAIG GROESCHEL
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KAYLA RAE The roof crush standard is a proposal and we'll certainly take all comments into account when we wri... RAE TYSON You go on saying we're the same mind split perfectly in two. You go on saying we're practically join... KAYLA RAE No. The hardest word to say. KAYLA RAE We cry. We cry when we reach happiness, anger, sadness, all emotions. KAYLA RAE Another man's heart is full of hardships. Mine is easier. So is yours. With knowledge I see that onl... KAYLA RAE I change hearts now and then. Absorbing the life of another man. That is my peek reasoning and when ... KAYLA RAE It is expression that leads to modification. It is keeping it all inside that leads to frustration. ... KAYLA RAE She is saddest when she smiles; happiest when she cries. KAYLA RAE You can that one man insult you and hurt you and you can let that dwell in your mind forever or you ... KAYLA RAE I'll hear his words and wonder what inspired him to say, but never does her share. I ask and ask, bu... 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The existence of other people is essentially awkward. 
There's so many, 'no, black people aren't like that' barriers in mainstream media. 
You're just a really loud, awkward ninja, but we are both ninjas. 
Why do we always have to see black people in hindsight? Why are the Hollywood movies always historic... 
Insert the biggest, most awkward silence in the history of big awkward silences. 
And in a world without heroes, as the movie trailer voice-over guy might say, the slightly awkward c... 
I always made an awkward bow. 
Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to ... 
I think that many black people thought this would be a wonderful and extraordinary thing, for a blac... 
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