DeRay Mckesson Quotes

It is not a new tactic for people to use any avenue they can to silence black activists.

DeRay Mckesson

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• I collect handkerchiefs. I know that's sort of old-timey, but my mom started the collection for me, and now I have a bunch. Basically, I have a myriad of beautiful handkerchiefs, and I carry them like a grandmother in my purse. And I opt for hankies in any situation.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Beautiful
  • Mom
  • Grandmother

• Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Nature
  • Harmony

• I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Life
  • Great
  • My Life

• Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Path
  • Leave
  • Lead

• Reverence is fatal to literature.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Literature
  • Reverence
  • Fatal

• Whatever people thought the first time they held a portable phone the size of a shoe in their hands, it was nothing like where we are now, accustomed to having all knowledge at our fingertips.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • People
  • Time
  • Knowledge

• I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Great
  • Understand
  • Flawed

• The Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center serves as a poignant reminder of our past and a trusted source of education for schoolchildren, community members, and visitors from across the country.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Country
  • Past
  • Education

• I'm completely open about the fact that I don't love every genre of metal. I like what I like. It's got to have some vocal quality and some semblance of melody.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Quality
  • Like
  • Genre

• No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • America
  • Quite

• I've certainly not got any famous people's numbers on my phone. It's just not my thing, really.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • People
  • Famous
  • Numbers

• Thinking about your role will automatically get you in the frame of mind to get your strategy and game plan right before you step onto that field.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Game

• Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.

  

  D. W. Griffith
  • Think
  • Well
  • Did

• I have 'To Kill A Mockingbird' signed by Harper Lee. That is my prized possession.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Possession
  • Signed
  • Prized

• If you look at the polling around climate change in this country before 'Sandy', that was kind of the low point in terms of Americans believing that climate change was real and that humans were causing it.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Country
  • Real
  • Change

• I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Guy

• If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Lost
  • Failure
  • Learn

• I'll get up at 5 or 6. I try to catch up on sleep on the weekends, so I'll try to get seven hours of sleep. During the week, my ideal is to go to bed at 9 and wake up six hours later.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Up
  • Sleep
  • Week

• I think that the one thing about 'Parenthood' is that, while it's never been a huge out-of-the-box hit, it's always been solid. We've always kept our audience.

  

  Jason Katims

• All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Rest
  • Lies
  • Wants

• Russia and China have maintained that people prize stability over freedom and that as long as the central State creates conditions for economic growth, people will be complacent and will be willing to literally sell away their rights. In fact, this very economic growth will eventually catch up with these regimes.

  

  Daniel Lubetzky
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• I believe that people should get a second chance, but I do believe that Baylor is threatening the safety of their students by putting somebody like that in a classroom with girls.

  

  Ashley Johnson
  • People
  • Believe
  • Safety

• Many, I fear, would like glory, who have no wish for grace. They would [want to] have the wages, but not the work; the harvest, but not the labor; the reaping, but not the sowing; the reward, but not the battle. But it may not be.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Work
  • May
  • Fear

• It is not a new tactic for people to use any avenue they can to silence black activists.

  

  DeRay Mckesson
  • People
  • Black
  • Silence