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DeRay Mckesson Quotes

You're not born woke. Something wakes you up.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: american
Birth: July 9, 1985

Topics

You Born Up Woke Something Wakes

The first person is a tradition I relate to and that I use; historically, it's been the voice I work in. But the hair on the back of my neck stands up when I'm referred to as a 'confessional' writer.

Work Hair Voice Tradition Back Up

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Fight Care You Will Way Others

And they talk about their bona fide doctors. They have a list of doctors that signed affidavits from looking at a picture of Terry. That's where they get their information from, by looking at a picture.

Michael Schiavo

Looking Picture Information Talk Get

Probably 95 percent of the things that are written never get on the screen.

Joseph Wambaugh

Never Things Screen Get Percent

The players on the team are the reason why we win. You don't have to treat them all identically; they're not going to be all the same. Your ability to lead and motivate those guys differently is important.

Team Win Treat You Important Why

I played soccer, and I was the kid who ran the wrong way, or I was pretending to be some sort of zebra and I would flail my arms and kick up my legs.

Soccer Wrong Legs Way Kid Up

It's hard to encapsulate my inspiration because there are so many different looks, but I think it's just like, sexy girl you see walking down the street in a cool outfit. A lot of eyelet, a lot of leather, playing with the hard and the soft, the good and bad inside of us all.

Good Girl Cool Think Sexy Walking

I'm a trained lawyer, after all, so I don't have to admit to anything.

Lawyer Admit Anything After Trained

Actually, I didn't plan to be an actor.

Plan Actor Actually

Alzheimer's is a horrible thing. Some people are naive about it. They think, 'Oh it's just your memory,' but my mother was in terrible pain. Your body closes down. She didn't know if she'd eaten or if she wanted to eat. She couldn't remember how to walk. Towards the end, she didn't know us. It came gradually, then it got worse.

Mother Walk Pain Memory People End

I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level.

Small Class Studying Always Level

Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.

World Injustice Nothing Question Who

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