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.
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This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.
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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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We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.
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Nothing can make you more humble than pain.
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I've never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.
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I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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'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.
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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.
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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.
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And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
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I have nothing holding me back in my head at all.
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Everything I want to do in my life, I want to be at the top.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Golf, like measles, should be caught young.
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If we want to get to the source of what we feel, we need to figure out what we believe and value.
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One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
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Some people don't operate in that way: they can't understand how much strength comes from being compassionate and lifting other people up.
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My parents were definitely on the incentive side of parenting. Like, they told me that my father had learned to read when he was three. So, of course, I thought I had to, too.
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If black lives mattered, I believe that policing and immigration enforcement would not be the devastating force that it is in our communities.
