Emily Raboteau Quotes
Your average white liberal might agree with social justice in principle, and yet live quite comfortably as a "winner" in a nation whose social institutions - characterized by political exclusion, exploitation, and unequal access to resources - have systematically made others lose out. But here's the thing. Maybe it's time to get uncomfortable and upset. Maybe those feelings can be acted upon.
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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Inspired by Alex Haley's 'Roots,' at the age of 11 I began a handwritten Middle Passage story called 'Lawdy, Lawdy, Make Us Free.' I was raised by civil rights activists with a very strong sense of racial history and consciousness.
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.
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We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
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Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.
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I just tend to do things to myself that I don't realize I'm doing. Sometimes I bite my lip so that it splits and hurts, and yet I can't stop. And sometimes I'd play shows on the last run, I'd scratch my neck while I was singing, and I'd horrified to see these red streaks of blood after.
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I was a huge fan of comedy in high school.
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I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued.
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Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.
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Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.
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The Obama administration has been weak and inconsistent in enforcing immigration laws.
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I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.
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Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.
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Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
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Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
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The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.
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It gets quite difficult for me when I listen to pop music. I don't often understand the words, but when someone translates them to me, I think, 'What is this song representing? That women are just there to be treated like objects?'
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I can't tell my people that you will get power only from 6 A.M. to 5 P.M., and after that, we live in darkness. You need 24-hour power; you need a baseload, and that baseload for India is coal. We are looking at clean coal technologies to reduce the impact of pollution.
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Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.
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One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply about justice, and they they have open minds.
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The Toxics Release Inventory has been extremely successful in raising public awareness about chemical hazards in communities from coast to coast. Public disclosure has proven to be a strong incentive for polluters to reduce their use of toxic chemicals.
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Your average white liberal might agree with social justice in principle, and yet live quite comfortably as a "winner" in a nation whose social institutions - characterized by political exclusion, exploitation, and unequal access to resources - have systematically made others lose out. But here's the thing. Maybe it's time to get uncomfortable and upset. Maybe those feelings can be acted upon.
