Alicia Garza Quotes
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
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I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
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I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.
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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.
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No civilisation can claim to have a monopoly on universal values and no one can claim to be always faithful to his own values.
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I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.
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What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?
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People tend to treat people with disabilities sort of like they're aliens from another planet. It doesn't come from a bad place; it comes from a place of, 'I have no idea what this disability entails, and I don't want to offend anyone or make them feel awful.'
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Working in a bar was a horrific idea for me.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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I developed a deep sadness for celebrities, a pity that they often are caught in a plastic world that runs too hard and too fast, and that many times that world means destroyed relationships with everyone they know and love.
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Adele ultimately did well in such a large way because she affects everybody, and the way that she writes seems to be popular music, not because of her skin color but because she writes great music, and it's popular in that way.
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My national identity is first American. My religious identity is first Muslim.
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My girlfriend is a fashion designer. She has her own company called Rachel Antonoff. She is doing a collaboration with Urban Outfitters right now, a shoe collaboration with Bass. She sells to Barneys, stuff like that.
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As a teenager, rather than setting myself on a course to pursue fame (quite common growing up in L.A., the entertainment capital of the world), happiness, fulfillment, and spiritual enlightenment (also quite common), I skipped right on to trying to be successful. 'Let's just get on with it,' I felt. 'Onward' became my motto.
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You want people to buy you as just about anything. So if they think that you're one thing, it's hard to slip into, you know, all these other things.
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There used to be a time - it isn't so much the case now - that vegetarianism was some kind of religion, and either you belong or you don't belong.
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If you read the memoirs of slave-owning families, you'd be hard pressed to find evidence of black people in the lives of the whites, even though for most of the time on the plantations black people outnumbered whites by a ratio of seven to one.
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Now we have no God. We have had two: the old God that our fathers handed down to us, that we hated, and never liked; the new one that we made for ourselves, that we loved; but now he has flitted away from us, and we see what he was made of - the shadow of our highest ideal, crowned and throned. Now we have no God.
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We certainly could have voted on making the middle-class tax cuts and tax cuts for working families permanent had the Republicans not insisted that the only way they would support those tax breaks is if we also added $700 billion to the deficit to give tax breaks to the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans. That's what was really disturbing.
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A lot of people think they should be happy all the time. But the writer understands you need both. You need the whole piano: the richness of the whole human experience. Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human.
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