Opal Tometi Quotes
Black immigrants and refugees have just as much at stake in the fight to make Black Lives Matter as African Americans do.
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This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.
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The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.
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A lot of actors in my age bracket look at being still standing as pretty good.
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We are so blessed to be here in America. We have freedom and opportunity unlike anywhere else in the world.
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Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It's all part of the same person but it's a much newer medium for me.
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I'm one of those foolish people who believe the glory days of the record industry aren't behind us. They're actually ahead of us.
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The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.
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When we were growing up, women in their late 40s generally didn't dye their hair.
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Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
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Politics is not an exact science.
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I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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Let me make this clear: it is our duty to adopt a policy barring the wearing of niqabs in these public buildings.
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Keep your elbows soft. Keep your elbows looking fine.
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What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
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There needn't be a distinction between your life and your music.
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I met Bill Clinton; he's a very nice guy. Yeah, Bill Clinton's cool.
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It's very important to reveal the mystery of the pyramid. Science in archaeology is very important. People all over the world are waiting to solve this mystery.
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People need to seek out some diversity in their life. One of my friends is a pig farmer in Michigan, and even she has black friends. She's in the middle of nowhere - the closest airport is, like, three hours away - and she manages to connect with black people.
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We haven't played that many of them because all our gear was over here waiting for us when we could get here. So we didn't get to rehearse any of the new stuff, so we have planned to play 3 or 4 new ones.
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I like the gritty parts of fashion, the design, the studio, the pictures.
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Success, to me, is just doing things that I'm really proud of.
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True zeal is connected with a holy life. It is remarkable how often the greatest zealots for God, the Church, and sound doctrine (as they regard it), have been unholy and even immoral in their lives.
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Black immigrants and refugees have just as much at stake in the fight to make Black Lives Matter as African Americans do.
