Alicia Garza Quotes

We've said from the very beginning Black Lives Matter is a network and also, as a broad set of individuals, is an organization moving to transform the way our society values black lives. It's not an 'Internet movement.'

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• The contributions of African Americans, Native Americans, and immigrants throughout our nation's history are undeniable, but the tendency to overlook their gallant efforts is pervasive and persistent.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • History
  • Nation
  • Immigrants

• I did 'Lone Star Love' in 2007 with Randy Quaid, and that was supposed to come to Broadway at the Belasco and a marquee went up and everything... and it all fell apart, and that marquee came right down, and we got severance pay. And, it was very sad.

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Sad
  • Right
  • Very

• The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Control
  • Mistake

• I just was in the second round. That's painful, because always is tough to lose, but well, that's sport. You win, you lose.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Win
  • Lose
  • Tough

• We are wedded to freedom of expression and shall do nothing to diminish that freedom.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Freedom
  • Nothing
  • Expression

• I take none of that to heart. I don't feel like there's anything that I need to do for anybody else. I want to win bad enough for myself anyway, that nothing anybody can say can make me want to win any more.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Heart
  • Bad
  • Myself

• If it took seven days to make a living with a restaurant, then we needed to be in some other line of work.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Work
  • Living
  • Restaurant

• I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Work
  • English
  • Literature

• It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Stupid
  • Said
  • Islam

• Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Mind
  • Moments
  • Happiness

• Fans can never accuse R. Kelly of doing the same thing; I keep mixing it up.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Up
  • Never
  • Doing

• I would really love to collaborate with Gwen Stefani and M.I.A.; artists that kind of make sense with me vocally. And in terms of style, I'm a very visual artist. I really love Pharell. I love people that really care about drums, and I like beat-heavy.

  

  Kat Graham
  • People
  • Style
  • Care

• I've got friends who are literally working alone on indie games that have no prospect of profit or commercial success. I've got guys working on iPhone games.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Friends
  • Success
  • Alone

• And, you know, I watched him in Texas where he stood on his principle but he also reached out to members of the other party to try to work with them, to try to forge agreement where he could in keeping with his conservative principles to make Texas a better place.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • Work
  • Party
  • Texas

• It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Money
  • Wrong
  • Allow

• It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Want
  • Know
  • Question

• Thomas Paine, so celebrated and so despised as he traveled through the critical events of his time, has long appealed to biographers. Paine was present at the creation both of the United States and of the French Republic. His eloquence, in the pamphlet 'Common Sense,' propelled the American colonists toward independence.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Time
  • Long
  • American

• In my opinion we are at the limit now, and 17 races is really too much. With all the testing that we do now, it means we're always on the bike and it's quite difficult.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Opinion
  • Bike
  • Too Much

• To open yourself up and open your heart, it's a scary thing in life, let alone a movie.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Life
  • Up
  • Heart

• All strugglesAre essentiallyPower struggles.Who will rule,Who will lead,Who will define,refine,confine,design,Who will dominate.All strugglesAre essentiallyPower struggles, And mostare no more intellectualthan two ramsknocking their heads together.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Together
  • Design

• One of my favorite places is Seattle. Growing up, I never thought I'd be able to go to Seattle. I grew up in eastern South Carolina, so that's as far as you can get from Seattle, unless I lived in Miami.

  

  Josh Turner
  • Up
  • Growing

• Spanish alone was understood or spoken here; our friend, the countryman, stuck to us most nobly, he understood us not a bit better than the rest but saw that we were in distress and would not desert us.

  

  George Grey
  • Alone
  • Friend
  • Rest

• In Leading with Honor, Lee uses gripping stories from the POW camps to engage the reader and teach invaluable principles of leadership. I highly recommend this book for developing leaders at all levels in any organization, military of civilian.

  

  William R. Looney III
  • Military
  • Organization
  • Leader

• We've said from the very beginning Black Lives Matter is a network and also, as a broad set of individuals, is an organization moving to transform the way our society values black lives. It's not an 'Internet movement.'

  

  Alicia Garza
  • Society
  • Black
  • Moving