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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Confidence is sexy.
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I remember the noise of the bells ringing at school as the effigy of Guy Fawkes we'd prepared earlier was carried out on a canvas stretcher, hoisted on to the huge bonfire and set alight. Then the revelry would begin. My school friends and I would all have sparklers we passed around, lighting one from another.
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Kindness isn't sacrifice so much as it is being considerate for the feelings of others, sharing happiness, the unselfish thought, the spontaneous and friendly act, forgetfulness of our own present interests.
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Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.
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I am mindful that the goal of protest is not more protest, but the goal of protest is change.
