DeRay Mckesson Quotes
We question these issues of race and struggle and white privilege because we know that those issues are real and because those issues have real implications in black communities. And white supremacy is not only dangerous, but it is deadly.
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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That's what I love about our music - it'll never be a hit because you can't dance to it.
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In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged.
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From the pop side, people like Usher, and when they first came out, I listened to guys like K-Ci and JoJo; that '90s R&B thing really caught my ear.
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Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
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The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses.
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The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.
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I like to play poker. I have a nice poker group that's been going on for years.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone's notebook. A record. Of a place, beauty, difficulty. A familiar daily struggle.
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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
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I've never fabricated or plagiarized anything.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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I'm not the best at video games, but I play them a lot.
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It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
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I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.
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Beyond this day, no thinking person could fail to see what would happen.
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A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.
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I would bump A Tribe Called Quest in my car all day.
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Democracy is not tolerance. Democracy is a prescribed way of life erected on the premise that all men are created equal.
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We felt if we didn't have new material in us and we didn't have a real reason to exist, then we probably wouldn't have done an 80's revival thing. We are very conscious about the fact that's what we are as a bunch of people.
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I've paid the price over the years, though: a lot of injuries and surgeries related to my sports career; my hips and knees took a lot of wear and tear.
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Some nights, a romantic dinner can be killed by having to do dishes afterward, so it probably suits you better to go out for dinner. But I love cooking and always have.
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We question these issues of race and struggle and white privilege because we know that those issues are real and because those issues have real implications in black communities. And white supremacy is not only dangerous, but it is deadly.
