Opal Tometi Quotes
Black Lives Matter has been viral, and people are taking it, appropriating it, and using it however they see fit.
Quotes to Explore
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The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under.
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No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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'Hellraiser' is an amazing world that Clive Barker created, and it is such a beautifully vibrant and surreal world within which to work. It is also not an undaunting canvas. It is a canvas created by an artist.
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You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.
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I accidentally entered a youth pageant when I was 14. That's like a beauty pageant, but without the beauty. It was terrible.
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It's almost like he's started to sound even more exotic the more people started doing him. I don't know why, but there's just something about Al Gore that makes me laugh.
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I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it's a very healthy discipline.
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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I have been acting since I was thirteen.
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The script for what would eventually become my first graphic novel, 'Cairo,' sort of came to me in kind of a bolt of lightning within 24 hours of having moved to that city. Just a jumble of characters and narratives and interesting things that I was seeing and experiencing for the first time.
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By the time I got to Bournemouth Art College, I'd been so inspired by Sam Raimi and Robert Rodriguez and their tiny, no-budget films that I decided to do a feature-length version of 'Fistful Of Fingers.'
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Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.
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I love books.
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There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.
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Let me say what I actually believe. I believe that 9/11 was a conspiracy, by Al Qaeda, and Osama Bin Laden, and no one else trying to hurt America.
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We have the only cookbook in the world that has partial differential equations in it.
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Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
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In every generation, there are quite firm rules on how to behave when you are crazy.
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The 2 million people who work in the NHS and social care are also themselves patients and users. I know they all want to treat patients and users the way they and their families would want to be treated and that is the purpose of our reforms.
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I look at my cell phone to see what time it is where I am, and then you behave accordingly. If people are eating, it must be time to eat.
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I've discovered all kinds of music and done all kinds of music over the past 40 years, from playing tango with Piazzolla to all the different bands I've had.
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The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.
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Black Lives Matter has been viral, and people are taking it, appropriating it, and using it however they see fit.
