Burna Boy (Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulu) Quotes
Most Americans don't even understand what I'm saying in my records, but they pick up on the vibe, the vibration.
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There's a whole lot more to the African-American community than entertainment and sports.
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African-Americans are not a monolithic group. So, we tend to talk about the black community, the black culture, the African-American television viewing audience, but there are just as many facets of us as there are other cultures.
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I'm the first American designer who went all over the world.
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In order to understand the mindset of a boxer, I needed to become a boxer myself.
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Despite a certain amount of rhetoric, such as 'the second American Revolution,' there is a fair consensus about which events in the affairs of a people can rightly be called revolutions. It is also clear that such revolutions are proper objects of study for the historian.
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I got into journalism not to be a journalist but to try to change American foreign policy. I'm a corny person. I was a dreamer predating my journalistic life, so I got into journalism as a means to try to change the world.
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Perhaps if all the peoples of the world understand what war really means, we would eliminate it.
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Since Reagan there has been this tradition, which has become a cliche, of promising morning in America, this fake optimism, we're the best, the city on the hill. In fact the great American task is self-scrutiny.
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There are two factors in American politics that may seem strange to Europeans: race and religion.
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The Sino-American competition involves two significant realities that distinguish it from the Cold War: neither party is excessively ideological in its orientation; and both parties recognize that they really need mutual accommodation.
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We should make it so that young people pay their fair share for health care, and nothing more. And instead of Washington telling us what to buy, let's get back to letting every American choose the plan that's best for them and their family.
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The American Negro never can be blamed for his racial animosities - he is only reacting to 400 years of the conscious racism of the American whites.
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In the midst of applying for American citizenship, of finally attempting to get my presidents in a row, I felt it incumbent upon myself to explore the national psyche in every way.
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No matter what happens, we couldn't let people say Asian-American actors can't act.
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I am a boring loner. I enjoy Friday nights at home in my rocking chair with no arms, rocking and relaxing. It's not uncommon for Netflix to be involved. Records are a possibility, but most of it is spent in silence.
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My appearances are almost theatrical performances. I bring items for the children to see, such as photographs and actual piece of meteorite, a family quilt, sometimes spectacles, sometimes clothing, so that they can understand what I write about is family stories based in fact.
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Stated bluntly, the Aztlan Strategy entails the end of the United States as a sovereign, self-sufficient, independent republic, the passing away of the American nation. They are coming to conquer us.
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I want people to understand that we, the American people, are not each other's enemies. The real enemies are those people who are trying to divide us into every little possible group.
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The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.
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I wasn't the class clown. I wasn't that obvious. There would be a circle of guys, and they're watching the class clown. And I'm standing in the back, and I turn to the guy next to me and I say something funny to him, and he starts to laugh. And the guy next to him says, 'What did he say?'
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I'm Jewish and my wife isn't so right now we're literally decorating a Christmas tree with Jewish stars draped around it.
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Whether it's on top of a phone booth or a $200 million soundstage, it's about stories.
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I want to be an inspirational model. I want people to look at me and say, 'Wow, she looks healthy.'
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Most Americans don't even understand what I'm saying in my records, but they pick up on the vibe, the vibration.
