DeRay Mckesson Quotes
I am mindful that the goal of protest is not more protest, but the goal of protest is change.
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In times of need, God can come to you in a myriad of disguises.
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I don't know why my shoes are so popular - I am always surprised and mystified by it.
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I'm not a natural performer or exhibitionist. When I was younger, I hated the focus, and it made me feel strange.
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I think fractures in your childhood make you observe the world more as an outsider. Possibly it pushes you outside.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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I've noticed if you look too far ahead, it only works negatively on you.
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I love the studio audience. That's where I feel the most at home. You know right away if you're being funny or not.
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Hackney at certain epochs has given itself suburban airs and graces, before being slapped down and consigned once more to the dump bin of aborted ambition.
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In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life.
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Atlanta is the number one place to live. You live better, you eat better, the rides are better, vehicles is better deals. It's better people. More mean people, but at my level you want it to be about business, so it's perfect for me.
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I've never been to the Himalayas, and I'm not really interested in them. I'm more interested in a dirty old quarry in Lancashire, and by god, they can be dirty.
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Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences.
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I sleep and I unsleep. On the other side of me, beyond where I lie down, the silence of the house touches infinity. I hear time falling, drop by drop, and no falling drop is heard falling.
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'More and more as time has gone on, I realize that playing is really more about listening than it is about playing.'
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We have a decision to make every hour of every day, and that is whether to represent the sword or the shield. Democracy now.
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Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
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Dickens never joined a political party nor put forward a political programme. He was a writer who rightly saw his power as coming through his fiction.
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There's something really special for a young person to sit in an audience and discover somebody, and it's rare to do because so much of a movie's economics are based on pre-existing actors or actresses.
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I want to know what people thought and what they wore and what they ate for breakfast.
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The gospel is only good news if it gets there in time.
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I lost the life that I knew, and I really had to rethink my future and think about my core values and the things that I love, and my passion, and that's really what helped me move forward. Also, for me just being grateful for what I had in my life versus on focusing on what I was losing, that really helped as well.
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I am mindful that the goal of protest is not more protest, but the goal of protest is change.
