Van Jones Quotes
I consider myself to be sort of a progressive Afrofuturist that is deeply committed to social justice.
Quotes to Explore
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Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated expectations beyond reality in some respects.
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Before I got into stand-up, I used to be a hip-hop dancer in a crew, and my name was J. Smoove, and my partner was J. Groove.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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I think it must be so hard to start your career with everyone going on about how gorgeous you are. To be in that bracket must be so pressurised.
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The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.
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We're going to create a portable handheld environment, and you should expect the same things you've always expected from Playstation - a great quality product, versatility, great value to the consumer.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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I think when you suffer a tremendous loss, everybody needs love and support in tangible ways. And that's what people have done for us.
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We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.
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I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.
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Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
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It's not just that individuals have lost faith in the integrity of their leaders, it's that they no longer believe society's most powerful institutions are acting in their interests.
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Movies are fun, but they're not a cure for cancer.
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Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
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I was not really as good as I should have been.
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A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.
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We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one.
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I was writing from the age of 10, and I was never really into going to discos and dances and stuff. I never told anyone at school that I did that because I feared it would alienate me even more.
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Chairman Mao once said that political power comes from the barrel of a gun. He was only partly right: power that comes from the barrel of a gun can be effective only for a short time. In the end, peoples love for truth, justice, freedom, and democracy will triumph. No matter what governments do, the human spirit will always prevail.
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Ford made some of the most progressive pictures.
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One of my dreams was to change the way women of color were seen on television.
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But I did go to music really early on, even when I was 4 or 5, I was responding to music probably in ways other kids were not.
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Of all the people on Earth, the prefect and the greatest Man prayed.
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I consider myself to be sort of a progressive Afrofuturist that is deeply committed to social justice.
