Alicia Garza Quotes
The Clintons use black people for votes but then don't do anything for black communities after they're elected. They use us for photo ops.
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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I was born in Bradford, a city in the north of England that God forgot about. A place where most people never leave, but if they do, they certainly never go back.
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I worked as a telemarketer for an SAT-prep company. That was the worst of it, because I had to call people in post-Katrina New Orleans and offer them this very, very expensive SAT class. And I'm not even a good salesman.
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The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
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I get so excited when a song I wrote that's very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.
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I made lots of talks and challenged lots of people.
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All of my favorite people - people I really trust - none of them were cool in their younger years.
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I realise how important it is to use the time I have. I respect people who want to do that by watching television. I happen to want to read books. But I know I can't read all the books or watch all the movies in one lifetime.
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The best thing about being on the road in general is just playing every single night in front of people that are genuinely fans of your music.
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People die because they find living too painful.
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The misperception about the South is that everybody is racist, and all black people are victims, that what was prevalent in the '60s is only relegated to the South.
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People don't blame the act of driving for auto accidents.
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Gentrification always makes me laugh. People complain about traffic. Live in Atlanta! You can't have it both ways; you can't live in an incredible city and not expect it to get congested.
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In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.
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Those few people who do respond to the dire conditions of the future - journalists, environmentalists, behavioral scientists - tend not to be powerful.
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To be aware of others' accomplishments and the indebtedness we have to so many people is to appreciate and begin to respect all members of the human family.
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There are people who are good for letters and others that are good for numbers.
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The general message would be to say to all these young people: If you have entrepreneurial aspirations, there is money, there are consumers, there is a huge market. The only thing you need to do is to go there and start doing things.
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Well, Neighbours wanted to do a song on the show, and they asked me what songs I had. I told them I'd just written this song, called Born to Try, and I had just gone overseas and spoken to some people from Song about it.
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We as black have to remind ourselves that we are a great people and we come from a great lineage. How can we say that we were Kings and Queens during ancient civilization but then turn around and say, 'we don't have privilege.' Who said that? What is that based on? Is that based on the white man's definition of privilege and what this system is showing us? Yes, of course.
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In some of the L.A. clubs, people can act too cool to get into your music. That can get to be a bit much.
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Ireland still remains the Holy Isle whose aspirations must on no account be mixed with the profane class-struggles of the rest of the sinful world … the Irish peasant must not on any account know that the Socialist workers are his sole allies in Europe.
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Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
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The Clintons use black people for votes but then don't do anything for black communities after they're elected. They use us for photo ops.
