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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Probably nobody in America has come close to setting up as many jobs for people with his business as Donald Trump has.
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I always knew I belonged on the other side of the lens.
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The past will always affect me, and I will keep that in mind while remembering that how it played out is only my starting point, not my final destination.
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The past still had its future.
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I did model for a little while part-time, but I wasn't a bloody model, and I am definitely not that horrible thing 'model-turned-actress.'
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Black Lives Matter has been viral, and people are taking it, appropriating it, and using it however they see fit.
