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 remember going into a bookshop, and the only book I saw with a black child on the cover was 'A Thief in the Village' by James Berry, and I thought, 'Is this still the state of publishing?' Then I thought, 'Either I can whine about it or try to do something about it.'
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I just pinch myself, because I think if there's anything I can be proud of, I've survived success, which I think is difficult these days.
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Dream that you died It takes you out of your mind The black walls of space Take me all the way
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Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.
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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
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Being born gay, black, and female is not a revolutionary act. Being proud to be a gay black female is.
