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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A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity 'til he has tasted adversity.
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There's a deep affection and respect for the Queen and the monarchy in the U.K. But Diana was an extraordinary, iconic figure and her death sparked a fierce reaction, part grief and part anger at her being taken away. It was very fraught.
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My neighbors think I do nothing because I don't go to a job, which is fine and good.
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Few of us will forget the wail of mingled grief, rage and horror which rose from the camp when the Indians returned to it and recognized their slaughtered warriors, women, and children.
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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.
