Opal Tometi Quotes
My parents being from Nigeria deeply informs all my social justice and human rights work.
Quotes to Explore
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The contributions of African Americans, Native Americans, and immigrants throughout our nation's history are undeniable, but the tendency to overlook their gallant efforts is pervasive and persistent.
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It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.
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To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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At a young age, I had to give up a lot of things, like being able to hang out with my friends.
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The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
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I like to come up with lots of different sounds. So the final version of a song might have been 10 completely different songs before we finally got it right.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.
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I wouldn't ever do a radio edit because I feel like it would totally go against the point of 'Follow Your Arrow.' I just think you're going to like it or not like it.
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The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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By nature, I'm an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am.
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I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.
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Many men start being friendly with women because they are trying to seduce them. I'm not trying to seduce them. I just like hanging out with them.
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During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful home where all ethnic groups live in harmony and fostered an excellent culture that never fades.
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People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
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The world has devolved into a much more hardened and lethal place since that devastating September morning when Islamists assassinated nearly 3,000 Americans in the worst terror attack on U.S. soil.
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Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
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I love getting dressed up and having someone do my make-up and feeling pretty.
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President Obama stands ready to work with everyone, because that's what the American people expect and deserve - not for the short term political advantages, but the long term health of our country. We don't spend time trying to figure out what's in the minds of Republicans, we try to keep our focus on the American people.
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My parents being from Nigeria deeply informs all my social justice and human rights work.
