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DeRay Mckesson Quotes

Asking people for money is really different than asking people for their support.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Money Support People Asking Than

Before 'Austenland,' I got do a lead role in 'Northanger Abbey', which is Jane Austen. Growing up in England, you can't really ignore Jane Austen. It's always been there.

Growing Up Ignore You Growing Always

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

Anger Broken Bone Forever Word Heal

Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.

Concrete Abstract Whitman Emerson

I've had a very long career of being conservative.

Age Dance Sister Hometown Dream

I visited an asylum to observe expressions of the mentally disturbed and to get my body language right for the blind girl's role. I visited the blind school, read the autobiography of Helen Keller, and watched a number of films from 'Scent of a Woman' to 'Anurag,' 'Fanaa' and 'Black.'

Girl Woman School Blind Language

I don't think we live in a particularly equal society.

Live Society Think Equal

When I'm creating a song, I'm thinking of a hip-hop beat playing on a live drum set - kinda like the Roots would do. I will put New Orleans music on top of that with some other rhythms.

Trombone Shorty

Live Music Roots Song Thinking New

I like to believe that everyone is born with the same skill set, and that it is the influences that one comes upon.

Believe Born Skill Same Everyone

I try to look in the future and think backwards. That is when I am at my most comfortable. Because then I am just like the movie, 'Back to the Future.'

Future I Am Think Look Back Try

Photograph the world as it is. Nothing's more interesting than reality.

Mary Ellen Mark

World Reality Interesting Nothing

I'm not a great dancer. I know I'm not. But I know that I can move. I can throw shapes, just not in the right order.

Great I Can Know Right Order Shapes

Any urbanist has to appreciate New York City and the way it works. The public transit is astonishing.

New York City Appreciate New Way

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