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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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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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.
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Sexuality is a private matter; some believe that broadcasting it destroys the very things that make it sacred.
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The same crime element that white people are scared of black people are scared of. While they waiting for legislation to pass, we next door to the killer. All them killers they let out, they're in that building. Just because we black, we get along with the killers? What is that? We need protection too.
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Even as a little kid, I was fascinated by newspapers and magazines. They were my TV. I'd be the first one up to grab the morning paper, mainly to look at the sports pictures, the war pictures.
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I am really looking forward to being a role model for girls.
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Steve Aoki is somebody I really love, and he did a remix of 'Mi Gente,' 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.
