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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There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.
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The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.
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Originally, we had a band known as Steely Dan. As we moved away from the band, we got whoever was appropriate for specific tunes. In a lot of cases, we gravitated toward jazz players who had more sophisticated harmonic concepts.
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Business is all about risk taking and managing uncertainties and turbulence.
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No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.
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I have a friend who is around my age, a little younger, and she's gay and came out to her own community when she was younger but not to her family and to the community at large.
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There's something in the Latino community called 'la promesa de Obama' - Obama's promise. He made very specific promises to the Latino community. He committed to enacting comprehensive immigration reform within his first year.
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Justice that is not rooted in equity, in social welfare, and in community is not justice at all.
