Lena Waithe Quotes
Being born gay, black, and female is not a revolutionary act. Being proud to be a gay black female is.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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That's what I love about our music - it'll never be a hit because you can't dance to it.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.
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And I mean I never doubt anybody's record.
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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The economy is not immutable; it's not about natural laws. It's about rules, and we make the rules.
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I'm a Republican. I don't want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat.
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Bill Cosby, you know, he's a delightful guy.
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In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn't do just one thing.
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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
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The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.
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I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
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I want to reach as many women throughout the world as I can.
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I don't think about fights that didn't happen.
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I went from a player who was never fit to a person who actually worked hard to get myself in shape.
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That means following a very restrictive fiscal and monetary policy which will squeeze the monopolies and cut their subsidies. On the micro level we will allow other economic agents, both domestic and foreign, to compete with them.
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I don't have time for easy. Tennis is just hard.
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I think, no matter what, when you're writing songs, most people write about the extremes of their experiences.
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I support gay unions. I think the government should get out of the marriage business completely - leave marriages to the churches. And grant civil unions to gay couples, grant civil unions to a man and woman.
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The 'Family Ties' role was the first of many gay roles that I've ended up playing. I remember that I made them laugh, and it made me feel good, 'cause it really cracked them up.
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I think what is nice about 'Elf,' and why it doesn't play as one long sketch, is that the character actually grows up during the course of the film. It's not just a character that you can keep checking in on and keep doing sketches about. It's a story. I'm pretty proud of how we told it.
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I have great difficulty sitting in the middle of the night and writing. Everything I do comes spontaneous. Sometimes it takes a long time; sometimes it comes just like that.
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Being born gay, black, and female is not a revolutionary act. Being proud to be a gay black female is.
