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DeRay Mckesson Quotes

I think of protest as confrontation and disruption, as the end of silence.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Silence Think End Disruption Protest

It's incredibly, incredibly difficult to get a movie made.

Difficult Get Made Movie Incredibly

When I was a kid, 'Quantum Leap' was one of my favorite TV shows.

Leap Kid Favorite Quantum TV Shows

There's no way to really mock up or simulate what I'm doing until I'm there. An exhibition for me is not a statement but an experiment.

Me Doing Way Experiment Up Until

Great creativity is astonishingly, absurdly, rationally, irrationally powerful.

Great Creativity Powerful Rationally

A samurai should always be prepared for death - whether his own or someone else's.

Death Someone Be Prepared Always Own

My late wife - she died of cancer. We tried everything we could do to save her. I wish that I could have done more and that I could have been with her at the moment she passed away. I couldn't be in that room because I knew it would be so devastating that I wouldn't be able to take care of the kids after.

Moment Wife Care Take Care Wish She

Things that I do tend not to work out commercially.

Work Out Things Work Out Tend

I published my first poem in 'The Paris Review' in 1980.

Paris First Review Poem Published

Even if you do something that others might consider wrong, you should at least be willing to talk about it and tell your parents what you're doing because you believe it's right.

Parents Believe Doing You Wrong

It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

Important Explorer Willing Led

I type my sermon notes into my BlackBerry, then I upload my sermon notes to my blog, my Facebook page and some of the information to my Twitter account. That's 100,000 people I'm sharing the Gospel with by the virtue of typing it into my BlackBerry as opposed to writing it down. That is being efficient with my time.

Time People Writing Information Down

The leaders come up from the volunteers that do the work, and it's amazing because then they do these incredible things in their community that they never thought they had the power to make that happen.

Work Community Power Amazing Thought

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