Patrisse Cullors Quotes

I think so much of my life had me growing up under extreme poverty and really challenging conditions, with having the police in my neighborhood and seeing the impact of over-incarceration. Having a father love up on me and remind of who I was, and my strength against those conditions, really shaped why I'm an organizer today.

Patrisse Cullors

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I love working with other actors and other people - you know, stand-up - it's lonely; it's just you out there and the audience. But it's fun working with other actors. I love doing that, too.

Wanda Sykes
- People
- Up
- Love
The iPod made music mobile, but today, how many devices do you need to walk around with? You want it on just one. And inevitably that's going to be the phone.

Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
- Music
- Today
- Walk
Don't spend more than 10% of your marketing/PR budget on a trailer. Trailers have to be marketed, too. So, far too many authors wind up marketing their trailers instead of their books.

M. J. Rose
- Up
- Wind
- Marketing
In the 1970s in New York, everyone slept till noon. It was a grungy, dangerous, bankrupt city without normal services most of the time. The garbage piled up and stank during long strikes by the sanitation workers. A major blackout led to days and days of looting. The city seemed either frightening or risible to the rest of the nation.

Edmund White
- Up
- Time
- Long
When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.

A. N. Wilson
- People
- Music
- Love
My mother's Mohawk and my father is Scottish/German from Nova Scotia.

Kaniehtiio Horn
- Mother
- Father
- German