Joy Bryant Quotes

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• You have to move to your own beat. There will be times when no one believes in you or understands what you're doing and why you are doing it. The most important thing is for you to believe in you. Following your own vision is one of the only things that will sustain you.

  Joy Bryant

  Believe, Moving, Vision

  "Actress + Oxfam Ambassador Joy Bryant". ORIGIN Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. November 17, 2015.

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• Following your own vision is one of the only things that will sustain you.

  Joy Bryant

  Vision, Following

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• When you empower women and help them thrive, you help their communities thrive. Women shoulder the burden disproportionately.

  Joy Bryant

  Empowering, Community, Helping

  "Interview: Actress + Oxfam Ambassador Joy Bryant". ORIGIN Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I never wanted to be the person who said, "I woulda, coulda, shoulda." Life is way too short, and you may not last that long.

  Joy Bryant

  Long, May, Way

  "Actress + Oxfam Ambassador Joy Bryant". ORIGIN Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. November 17, 2015.

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• I think when you're in love with someone, it reveals a lot about yourself. You either rise to your highest highs or you stoop to your lowest lows.

  Joy Bryant

  Thinking, Lows, About Yourself

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• Donate time, food, or money to organizations that fight the good fight. We can act individually for the collective good. We can all do something.

  Joy Bryant

  Fighting, Organization, Fight The Good Fight

  "Actress + Oxfam Ambassador Joy Bryant". ORIGIN Magazine Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. November 17, 2015.

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• It feels good to know you contributed positively to another's life, to their happiness, to their survival. It gives us a sense of purpose.

  Joy Bryant

  Giving, Feel Good, Survival

  "Why Wait For A Crisis To Give?" by Joy Bryant, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2009.

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• I grew up in the South Bronx, raised by my grandmother, who scrapped and scraped to make sure I had a roof over my head and food in my stomach. I was painfully aware of what it was like to live with limited resources and a certain level of uncertainty.

  Joy Bryant

  Grandmother, Limited Resources, Levels

  "Actress + Oxfam Ambassador Joy Bryant". ORIGIN Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. November 17, 2015.

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• Women are the harshest critics of other women.

  Joy Bryant

  Critics

  "Naked Celebrities Talk Body Image" by Rose Apodaca, www.sfgate.com. August 6, 2010.

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• If it gets to the point where I actually physically cannot have a child, there's plenty of children in the world that need a stable home and loving parent. I'm so down for adoption.

  Joy Bryant

  Children, Home, Parent

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• I love flowy hippie dresses.

  Joy Bryant

  Hippie, Dresses

  "The Coveteur: Joy Bryant". www.elle.com. April 19, 2013.

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• We live in a country [USA] where the belief is that anyone can succeed, but for so many here, and for the majority of the world, that's not the case. In many parts of the world, women and poor people are at a huge disadvantage - certain rights and protections don't exist, and they don't have the chance of upward mobility.

  Joy Bryant

  Country, Rights, Usa

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• I kind of do high-low style a lot.

  Joy Bryant

  Style, Kind, Lows

  "Joy Bryant Talks SXSW, Spring Outfits, and Samantha Ronson" by Lauren Levinson, www.elle.com. March 16, 2013.

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• With all this talk of Going Green, Buying Green, Living Green, and Green being the new whatever, I've come to realize that, although we had no green, my grandmother was actually the 'greenest' person I've ever known.

  Joy Bryant

  Grandmother, Green, Buying

  "Waste Not, Want Not". www.elle.com. June 21, 2011.

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• Life doesn't always end up with a bow wrapped around it.

  Joy Bryant

  Bows, Ends

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• Acknowledgement: Understanding and compassion for others and their suffering is the next step. Put yourself in the shoes of people who don't have the luxury of being wasteful.

  Joy Bryant

  Compassion, Shoes, Luxury

  "Interview: Actress + Oxfam Ambassador Joy Bryant". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I've always said that if anything - whether it was film or television - was something I responded to, then I was open to it.

  Joy Bryant

  Television, Film, Said

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• When I was younger, I was one of the few girls in the neighborhood who could break dance. That's kind of my local, ghetto-celebrity claim to fame.

  Joy Bryant

  Girl, Ghetto, Kind

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• In the mid-nineties, diversity in the fashion/beauty business was hard to come by.

  Joy Bryant

  Fashion, Diversity, Hard

  "Hyeeeee-ya!" by Joy Bryant, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 12, 2008.

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• Being involved with Oxfam has really opened my eyes to the world at large and the suffering of others. But my background and my life experience are what have allowed me to understand how interconnected we all are. I believe one person suffering reverberates throughout the world.

  Joy Bryant

  Believe, Eye, Suffering Of Others

  "Interview: Actress + Oxfam Ambassador Joy Bryant". ORIGIN Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I don't have children of my own so I can't say I know the plight of being a parent, but I can kinda understand some of the complexities of it.

  Joy Bryant

  Children, Parent, Plight

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• You can't improvise if you are tense. Or thinking too much. You have to really let it go.

  Joy Bryant

  Thinking, Let It Go, Too Much

  "EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Joy Bryant Survives Being the Villainess of Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins!" by B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. February 05, 2008.

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• I hate Christmas, really. I don't really give presents away or expect any.

  Joy Bryant

  Hate, Giving, I Hate

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• Sometimes, we are dealing with our own troubles and feel that we don't have the resources to help one another. Or simply, we just don't know what to do.

  Joy Bryant

  Helping, Sometimes, Trouble

  "Why Wait For A Crisis To Give?" by Joy Bryant, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2009.

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• My husband's a stunt man, and he dragged me to stunt driving school with him because I hate driving and he felt that it would help to make me feel more comfortable. And it did in certain ways, and in certain ways I'm still not.

  Joy Bryant

  Husband, Hate, School

  "'Hit & Run's' Joy Bryant on Dax Shepard, Stunt Driving and Nude Senior Citizens" by Sophie Schillaci, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 22, 2012.

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