DeRay Mckesson Quotes

I'm a black, gay man, and I should be able to live in a world where I'm able to live in the complexity of my identity in a way that is safe and secure, like everyone else.

DeRay Mckesson

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• If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Great
  • Home
  • Doubt

• Virtually every major technology has an initial spike of interest, then a dip, and then a long-term rise to success. The dot-com bubble is the canonical example, but there are many more.

  

  Balaji Srinivasan
  • Long
  • Success
  • Technology

• Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Men
  • Action
  • Move

• There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Men
  • Women
  • Die

• I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Time
  • Science
  • Past

• If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Know
  • Always
  • Try

• If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Cricket

• It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • People
  • Time
  • Stop

• I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Job
  • Sun
  • Did

• No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.

  

  Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • Looks
  • Wrong
  • Sounds

• If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • You
  • Learn
  • Changing

• Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • People
  • Children
  • Think

• The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Women
  • Slavery
  • Medical

• When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.

  

  Laura Bush
  • People
  • World
  • Women

• I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Children
  • Age
  • Suffering

• You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.

  

  Questlove
  • Know
  • Working
  • Greatest

• After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • People
  • Funny
  • Thought

• I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.

  

  Laura Wilkinson
  • Think
  • Dream
  • Challenge

• Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.

  

  Tabitha King
  • Writing
  • Space
  • Process

• It is impossible to objectively define how free a market is. This is a political definition. Government is always involved, and those free marketers are as politically motivated as anyone.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Free
  • Political
  • Government

• There should be a place and the space for all pop.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • Space
  • Should
  • Place

• You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discover that it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky. This is a very great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks that he is alone. This is why art is important. Art would not be important if life were not important, and life is important.

  

  James Baldwin
  • Life
  • Great
  • Important

• I'm a black, gay man, and I should be able to live in a world where I'm able to live in the complexity of my identity in a way that is safe and secure, like everyone else.

  

  DeRay Mckesson
  • World
  • Live
  • Black