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 would have to be able to come and go as I please. I could not sit in some office.
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Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge.
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As a vulgar lounge entertainer, my business relies on ridiculous stereotypes! If these people start using deodorant, I might as well just go home!
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This race is hotter than a Times Square Rolex.
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I have known men who thought the object of conversion was to cleanse them as a garment is cleansed, and that when they are converted they were to be hung up in the Lord's wardrobe, the door of which was to be shut, so that no dust could get at them. A coat that is not used the moths eat; and a Christian who is hung up so that he shall not be tempted, the moths eat him; and they have poor food at that.
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The history of blackness is also a history of erasure.
