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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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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If we all band together against extremism and spend a few minutes a day using tools that have been proven to work, we can make a big difference in defending those values we share as Americans.
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Black English is something which - it's a natural system in itself. And even though it is a dialect of English, it can be very difficult for people who don't speak it, or who haven't been raised in it, to understand when it's running by quickly, spoken in particular by young men colloquially to each other. So that really is an issue.
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The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.
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Pinterest has been helpful to my business. Making inspiration boards is really key to developing products. When I was getting married, I literally cut out tear sheets and put my own boards together. Had I known about Pinterest, I would have been able to do it so much more easily.
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I doubt if there is anything in the world uglier than a Midwestern city.
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Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started.
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Being born gay, black, and female is not a revolutionary act. Being proud to be a gay black female is.
