DeRay Mckesson Quotes
Justice that is not rooted in equity, in social welfare, and in community is not justice at all.
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I know that there are going to be people that don't like my music, but I think in the industry itself it is always that, 'Oh. you're from the 'X Factor.' There have been certain radio stations that will not play your song because you are from the 'X Factor,' yet they'll play another song from an artist from another TV show.
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I swear allegiance to the Republic of Sudan.
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Belgian chocolate is my weakness. I like over 72 percent cacao, which shows you how much of a dark chocolate snob I am.
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My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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If I'm trying to rebound after a bad hole, I just go back to tempo and process and rhythm, and I cling to my routine.
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I don't think there is much American music.
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I think is very beneficial to relax yourself so that when you are doing it you are not staggering for lines and your concentration is not on what I am going to say - but the scene itself, the character that you are talking to.
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I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't quite what I'm seeing - taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I've never seen before.
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We must improve our lives and we will do it together - all of our citizens and myself as president of Ukraine.
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I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.
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I have a handicap in that English is not my first language. So even though I'm a writer, I don't write anymore because it's just harder in English.
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I never forgot being poor, and I never stopped thinking how fortunate I am.
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You can be in the shape of your life, and then injury strikes. So you have to grab your opportunities.
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The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.
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Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
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I have a knack for choosing the wrong people.
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I have to be honest - I don't love guns.
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There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.
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I tremble when I am reminded of the fact that I have to be in charge of this country and Parliament, which had been led by no less a person than Jawaharlal Nehru.
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So it's a source of fun and a source of pride to have been a part of this little movie that could.
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In the year 3000, everything will be instant.
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I am a black man inside and outside and you are white men on the outside, but inside, you are Africans like me.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
Justice that is not rooted in equity, in social welfare, and in community is not justice at all.
