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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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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What I wanted to do was to look at the powerlessness that I felt as - and continue to feel at times - as a black man in the American streets. I know what it feels like to walk through the streets, knowing what it is to be in this body and how certain people respond to that body.
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My wife says that I changed people's lives or ways of thinking and that I should always be proud and grateful. If I'm dismissive of what we do sometimes, a little bit, she's like, "I was a fan, you changed my life," or whatever. That's what she says.
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Politicon should be applauded for recognizing the increasing impact of technology, not only on American social and economic systems but on the very structure of our system of politics.
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It's shameful that the elites basically have one-and-a-half political parties. Working class men and women have zero parties - or they have half a party. That's exactly what progressives are upset about.
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Being born gay, black, and female is not a revolutionary act. Being proud to be a gay black female is.
