John Roy Anderson Quotes
To be an American is to be part of the world because America, all the people of the world come to America.
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The FHA literally drew up the redlining map and then basically distributed - I'm sorry, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation actually did it, and then distributed to banks who used that as policy to determine how they would lend and who they would lend to. The racism in the system was pervasive and total.
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It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult.
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I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.
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I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
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I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I feared vulnerability more than my actual emotional pain itself!
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I've had to be tough my whole life.
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Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.
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Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution, religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part of the problem.
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The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
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Fighting is easy to understand. You just hit the guy as hard as you can.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.
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I like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal.
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Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
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I want everyone to put their views forward, every union branch, every party branch, so we develop organically the strengths we all have, the imagination we all have.
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Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.
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I helped write the expunction code in the State of Texas to give people the opportunity to have their names cleared when they have been mistakenly arrested.
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I think if I were living in a utopian world, then it wouldn't be political commentary; it would be about daffodils.
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To be an American is to be part of the world because America, all the people of the world come to America.
