Opal Tometi Quotes

If black lives mattered, I believe that policing and immigration enforcement would not be the devastating force that it is in our communities.

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• There are over a million people running around the United States that were born to parents just on Match.com alone, to say nothing of the other properties we run, so that's a million lives that our company just had a little to do with in bringing their parents together.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • People
  • Together
  • Parents

• This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Mind
  • Identity
  • Speech

• 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.

  

  Taylor Dane
  • Different
  • Character
  • Game

• We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • People
  • More
  • Act

• Nothing can make you more humble than pain.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • You
  • Pain
  • Humble

• I've never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Job
  • Myself
  • Never

• I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Up
  • City
  • Second

• I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Army
  • Jail
  • Oppose

• 'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don't care anything about it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Work
  • Dog
  • Judge

• Flip through the channels, and there is no denying it: The world of cable news - and their network chat-show brethren - is very, very white.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • World
  • News
  • White

• I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Music
  • Best
  • Moment

• And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Death
  • Beautiful
  • Happen

• I have nothing holding me back in my head at all.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Me
  • Nothing
  • Back

• Everything I want to do in my life, I want to be at the top.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Life
  • Want
  • My Life

• I hope to do big action movies and strong dramas, and to produce films. I also want to get kids more involved in what's going on in the world and to be politically active.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • World
  • Kids
  • Hope

• Reading about Queen Victoria has been a passion of mine since, as a child, I came across Laurence Housman's play 'Happy and Glorious,' with its Ernest Shepard illustrations.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Happy
  • Reading
  • Passion

• I have some property. We have a few acres, so I like working on it, whether it's cutting stuff down, cleaning stuff up, building steps, or working with concrete, you know, brickwork.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Up
  • Know
  • Cutting

• Golf, like measles, should be caught young.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Like
  • Golf
  • Young

• I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has to incorporate a lot of results. But a story is a chapter in the life of a company that people want to write and want to remember.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• Growing up in New York, I loved watching my grandmother Estee put on her make-up - I always admired her sense of style.

  

  Aerin Lauder
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Style

• I didn't worry about my career ending, but there were days where I felt pretty beat up by it all and just pretty tired, because they didn't make it easy for me. And coming right off the last lawsuit, it was the last thing I wanted to get involved in. When it was over, we didn't really celebrate, we were just exhausted. I lost all interest in the record business and never wanted to do anything except hand in a record again.

  

  Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Career
  • Worry
  • Ending

• Black English is simpler than standard English in some ways; for example, it often gets by with just 'be' and drops 'am,' 'is,' and 'are.' That's because black English arose when adult African slaves learned the language.

  

  John McWhorter
  • Black
  • English

• Being an actress was kind of like when you’re a kid, and you want to run away and join the circus, it's something you really want to do, but then you grew up and got a proper job. It was a dream, but I didn’t think it would ever be reality, and yet here I am!

  

  Katie McGrath
  • Up
  • Job
  • Dream

• If black lives mattered, I believe that policing and immigration enforcement would not be the devastating force that it is in our communities.

  

  Opal Tometi
  • Believe
  • Black
  • Immigration