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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Religion and education are no match for evil without the grace of God.
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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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Taught to regard a part of our own Species in the most abject and contemptible Degree below us, we lose that Idea of the dignity of Man which the Hand of Nature had implanted in us, for great and useful purposes.
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Presidential elections and the voter experience have long been fraught for black people. From racist poll taxes to made-up literacy tests to the egregious rollback of voting rights over the past 50 years, American democracy has, at times, felt like a weird and failed social experiment.
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Our education system is increasingly embracing a black-and-white way of thinking, in which 'learning' and 'play' are diametrically opposed. 'Learning' is the serious stuff that happens inside a classroom and can be measured via multiple choice questions and a No. 2 pencil. 'Play' is frivolous, fun, and worst of all, optional.
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Black children need to see their lives reflected in the books they read. If they don't, they won't feel welcome in the world of literature. The lives of African-Americans are rich and diverse, and the books our children read should reflect that.
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The Mayans were right, as it turns out, when they predicted the world would end in 2012. It was just a select world: the G.O.P. universe of arrogant, uptight, entitled, bossy, retrogressive white guys. [...] Instead of smallpox, plagues, drought and Conquistadors, the Republican decline will be traced to a stubborn refusal to adapt to a world where poor people and sick people and black people and brown people and female people and gay people count.
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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.
