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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I'm an all-around fighter. I do everything. I've got wrestling; I've got Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and I've got striking.
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To be born again means that we must be changed from a negative to a positive self-image - from inferiority to self-esteem, from fear to love, from doubt to trust.
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It seems that in the rush to be the first one to the story, the media overstates things. Not maliciously; I don't think they're intentionally misleading. But the credibility gap is already there, and in this rush to get to the story first, a lot of mainstream outlets just erode their credibility further.
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In the long arcade of the bus station footfalls come back like laughter. He marches darkly toward his darkly marching shape in the glass of the depot door. His fetch come up from life's other side like an autoscopic hallucination, Suttree and Antisuttree, hand reaching to the hand.
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It's not like I grew up playing pranks on people, and I was not that girl in school.
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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.
