Patrisse Cullors Quotes
With support from techies, designers, artists and thousands of activists across the country, Black Lives Matter is now an online-to-offline political movement, affirming the humanity and resilience of black communities.
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Well, I'm a Harley Babe.
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I can sing 'Happy Birthday' to you in twelve different places, but one of them is going to make you feel a certain thing, maybe it's a vulnerability, maybe an innocence, maybe another way is sexy and soulful or bluesy whatever it is, but with singers, exploring keys, I think, is important.
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The United States may be a religious nation. But it is also a nation with a strong commitment to separation of church and state.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to make films. That's really all I ever wanted to do.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself. Even though we are not sure of the links, Iraq was one of the countries that did not lower its flags in mourning on 9/11.
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I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'm here now - that a lot of people tell me they don't get enough guitar on my albums. So I decided to do an album where the guitar would be the singer, playing the melody.
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Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.
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I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.
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All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
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Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.
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Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.
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The key to fashion is, you don't want to look like you're trying. You've gotta be natural.
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I just went to an acting agency one day and just said, 'I would like to act. Would you take me?' And they took me.
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I'm not worried at all about going to 160 lb.
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Americans are generally decent and fair people with a commitment to sense, but some of us, swept up by our passions, wade too far into a sea of sensibility.
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Nearly four years after our country invaded and occupied Iraq, Americans are facing the painful truth that our nation has failed to achieve the Bush administration’s ambitious goals for that tragic land.
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There is a physical neurobiological substrate to all human knowledge, including thoughts, memories, perceptions and emotions. To this end, mental states and thought processes are physical.
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I never thought I was gonna live to 30.
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When it comes to meeting and attracting women, many men are resigned and complacent. We figure some guys were born with that particular power and other guys weren't. I wasn't.
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What frightens me and worries me is that these weeks are taken advantage of for the purpose of conflict rather than for consolidation.
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With support from techies, designers, artists and thousands of activists across the country, Black Lives Matter is now an online-to-offline political movement, affirming the humanity and resilience of black communities.
