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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When my lady and I sit down and watch TV, I find she gets annoyed at characters because they don't do what she would do in the situation. I'm always like, 'Well, she has to do that because that's what the story is.'
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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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From the happy-go-lucky days of oil exploration and drilling, when a lot of easy sources were being found and easily managed, we're gotten ourselves into this sort of apocalyptic time. We're willing to destroy almost everything, risk almost anything, and go ahead with techniques for which we have no way of responding to the known problems.
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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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Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.
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I grew up in a society where everything you did was eavesdropped on, recorded, snitched on. I had friends when we were kids getting into trouble for telling anecdotes about Communist leaders.
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Before 'Entourage,' I couldn't get a sitcom.
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I am a distance runner, a marathoner... literally and figuratively.
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Mr. Koons's work has always inspired architects, which I think is very interesting. I think he is an artist who has reinvented himself so many times and reinvented so many different series.
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My parents being from Nigeria deeply informs all my social justice and human rights work.
