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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Most people can't see beauty and love. I see our music as medicine.
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People are always very nice.
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I realized there was racism because people thought, 'Oh, if you like roll 'n' roll, that makes you like a white kid.'
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I read books all the time, I'm always reading. I'm not like somebody that reads really fast or a lot or anything, but I always have a book that I'm reading.
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I know the songs that Sly wrote still have the meaning for those that are living today that weren't even around when we started playing before, in the beginning. His lyrics, to me, if you listen to them, they can form a lifestyle that will leave you a happier person, a better person on this planet. It's just lyrics to live by.
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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.
