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DeRay Mckesson Quotes

Expressing and loving myself is often so much more complex than 'out' affords me.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Myself Me Loving More Out Complex

Working on the film really made me confront my opinions about change and gentrification.

Change Me Opinions Film Working

And if you see me, smile and maybe give me a hug. That's important to me too.

Smile Me You Hug Important See

I want to be part of every note, every single moment going on in the studio. I want nothing forgotten; I want nothing missed.

Moment Want Missed Nothing Single

I'm often at events when they're quite light-hearted social events when people would want me to kid around.

People Me Want Events Kid Social

My dad was a theatrical guy. He wore a scuba suit one time because he said so-and-so was in the tank with the mayor. He didn't really care what people thought, so he was able to put himself out there. He didn't have a lot of shame, in a good way.

Good Time People Thought Care Said

What we're doing for another person is more important than what we're feeling for them.

Doing Feeling Person Important More

'American Graffiti' stayed in my mind, but I don't think to this day I've done a film that captured that same level of melancholy. It was so well done. Talking about it has given me the idea I might try harder to make that melancholy film!

Day Mind Me Think American Talking

When I was 22 years old, and I first got to Nashville, women or girls were objects. It was a conquest. My emptiness inside and the external manifestation of my ego was to somehow conquer women.

Women Ego Conquer Nashville First

Acting and making music are quite complementary. Acting relies on someone else's writing and direction; writing music or lyrics doesn't. But they are both creative and personal in completely different ways.

Josephine de La Baume

Music Creative Writing Direction

These are matters of external history. They are indeed prominent objects, often changing and giving a new direction to the current; but they tell us not why it flows onward and will ever flow.

History Direction Giving New Why

We didn't have the lane ropes, we had to get up higher in the water to avoid the little waves.

Johnny Weissmuller

Water Waves Lane Up Little Get

I think that the reason Clinton chose Gore was that he was an example of what Clinton was like. He was kind of almost like the yellow magic marker that you use to highlight the text so that you can really remember what are the most salient features of it.

Yellow Think Remember Magic You

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