Emily Raboteau Quotes
I look at my kids, who were born under a Black president, who hop around the living room naked and joyful, mimicking Simone Biles, and just think, Damn, they got some amazing role models of Black excellence.
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Being 16 years old and getting an electric guitar is never going to get old. There's always going to be kids making music. There's always going to be kids in bands.
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I don't deal in pretentious kids' parties.
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I was a top-notch cartoon model for Hanna Barbera, and they made me into a cartoon series called 'Devlin,' which ran for seven years, and I was on lunch pails and coloring books and all of that. It's really interesting being a coloring book when you're young – most kids colored in coloring books, but I made money off coloring books.
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The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these '50s and '60s tapes, tapes of that music.
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More than 200,000 kids have had their lives transformed by ARK. I use that word properly.
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I am like a friend to my kids. My wife, Sangeeta, handles their studies, etc.
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I have taken the marshmallows off the sweet potatoes, however. They would make a big pan of sweet potatoes and cover it with marshmallows. My kids would love it if I would do that for them!
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My kids love going to school. When my son started going to kindergarten, we asked him, 'How was it?' and his only complaint was that he didn't get to stay in there longer.
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Kids will come into my boxing gym with no discipline, and then you teach them how to focus and love what they're doing, which then travels outside into their home and work life.
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There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
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I have been chastised by a president, I have antagonized and angered presidents, and I have taken on my own leadership.
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If our kids want to do music, they are going to have to have a hard row to hoe just like any other band under the sun, and they're going to have to want it more than anyone else.
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The best thing I probably do is - I'll say I'm a pretty darn good parent. I got good kids.
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I have spent a lot of time with foster children over the years - kids for whom I have not necessarily acted as a foster parent.
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I was born naked. I'm a natural. I'm a natural nude. So I've been on camera naked a lot.
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Ultimately, very few people parent their kids in ways that strike anybody else as reasoned, appropriate or sane.
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I have never had so much fun as in Montreal. I taught the kids French, I baby-sat, I went to school, I was a receptionist at a hairdresser's, I danced and drank all night. I found that the more you do, the more you have time to do... it's weird, non?
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I get a lot of kids distracted. Sometimes they got to go cover left field, but they're over here talking to me, getting an autograph.
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The kids get a vote. That's very important when it comes to raising kids. And always keep the bigger picture in mind.
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I don't want to make money; I want to make a difference.
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I first came across Langhorne Slim when I saw him play live, and he's an incredibly infectious performer. The way he works the crowd is mind-blowing. You can listen to his music without really listening to his lyrics, but it pays off if you do.
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I just work every day.
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The streetlight outside my house shines on tonight and I'm watching it like it could give me a vision. James ain't talked ever and he looks at that streetlight like it was a word and maybe like it was a verb. James wanted to streetlight me and make me bright and beautiful so all the moths and bats would circle me like I was the center of the world an held secrets.
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I look at my kids, who were born under a Black president, who hop around the living room naked and joyful, mimicking Simone Biles, and just think, Damn, they got some amazing role models of Black excellence.
