Patrisse Cullors Quotes
The brutal history of colonialism is one in which white people literally stole land and people for their own gain and material wealth.
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I love morning television because it's the most vulnerable time of day, when you are at your rawest, and if I have the ability to make viewers smile, that's a gift from God.
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very young, but only for a brief while. I don't think she had a great teacher. In any case, neither of them were really into music at a young age.
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I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I'm easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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When I got '227' and broke out from the rest of the cast, I became a workaholic, and I was very lonely.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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I've worked hard throughout my entire life, but I don't think all the hard work could have produced the same results without all the genetics I was given.
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Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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Being in the spotlight, you know, you tend to kind of forget who you are. And being an artist... it could be a very superficial job. It could be very pretentious as well.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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It takes one person to give you a big chance.
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Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.
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We should not argue with the blind man who maintained that sight was an illusion to which some abnormal people were subject. Therefore in speaking of religious experience I do not attempt to prove the existence of religious experience...
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People are strange. We're all morticians. Hey, what's on TV?
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Maybe if we can find time to hug and cherish our families and the people around us, child suicide or college suicide wouldn't be rampant.
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More and more I understand that it's very fine not to know where you come from.
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The brutal history of colonialism is one in which white people literally stole land and people for their own gain and material wealth.
