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Boots Riley Quotes

American - Musician | April 1, 1971 -

Any collective action is made up of individuals who one day decided not to sit and watch anymore.

Day Action One Day Up Watch Sit

Sometimes my influences are really on my sleeve. So I just make sure to wear a lot of sleeves.

Sometimes Wear Influences Sure Just

You can't get much done by yourself. Speaking as someone who made a movie - and it took hundreds of people to make it happen - I can say that.

Yourself People Make It Happen You

If we created a society based on love, it would be a society without exploitation.

Love Society Without Exploitation

The tech world is not a new phenomenon; it's a new era.

World New Tech New Era Era

The crux of our power isn't only in our voice. It is in our economic function in society.

Power Society Voice Economic Only

If you tell a story that's only allegory, then it doesn't help you at all. If it doesn't bring some emotional charge, then it's just talking about something.

Story Help Talking You Emotional

If what you want is actual change, then what has to be built is a mass movement that is militant and can use direct action to slow or stop profit. A movement that can do that can demand whatever it wants.

Change Action Slow You Profit Stop

My father joined the NAACP when he was 12, in the '50s. He was part of the organizing efforts that led to some of the first sit-ins in North Carolina.

Father Organizing First He Led Some

I want my music to be not only representative of other people's lives but also contributing something to the struggle that people are going through.

Music Struggle People Want Going

I think that in order to make revolution, you need to make reforms, but you should make these reforms with revolution in mind.

Mind Revolution Think You Need Make

The things you have to do to be effective - like forming a union at a fast food joint or a telemarketing company - aren't going to work unless you do things like solidarity strikes. Solidarity strikes are illegal. They've been illegal since the '40s, and they were made illegal because they work.

Work Food You Fast Solidarity Going

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