DeRay Mckesson Quotes
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You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
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I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
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God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one another and that, since we possess our human nature in common, each of us might share his thoughts with his neighbor, bringing them forth from the secret recesses of the heart as from a treasury.
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Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.
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You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.
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I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting.
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I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.
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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
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The stage is the best experience in the world. It's a great compliment to be able to share the music, because people can hear my album but they don't get to make the connection in the same way as when it's one-to-one.
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I'd like to do more family dramas.
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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
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I made a lot of movies that people loved when I was a kid, but I didn't have any real relationship to them.
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I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.
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'Limbo' has been one of the greatest hits of my career. A great response all over the world, not just Latinos but people in Europe and America.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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Our troops do an incredible job every single day, but our policymakers have not lived up to the sacrifices that our troops make every day.
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I am married.
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There are plenty of problems in the world, many of them interconnected. But there is no problem which compares with this central, universal problem of saving the human race from extinction.
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The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.
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I don't read my own reviews and I haven't for probably 15 years. I read other people's reviews, though.
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I enjoyed growing up part of my life in Virginia Beach. We had the ocean and the beach and a beautiful landscape. We were outdoors all the time and we played outside.
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The history of blackness is also a history of erasure.
