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Boots Riley Quotes

Oakland has always had artists attempting to define the immense beauty and ridiculousness around them.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: April 1, 1971

Topics

Beauty Always Define Artists Around

As bad as it feels, it's familiar to you. And the depression itself is making you unable to reach out. So, I've definitely experienced that in my life.

Life Depression Reach My Life You

Personally speaking, growing up as a gay man before it was as socially acceptable as it is now, I knew what it was to feel different, to feel alienated and to feel not like everyone else. But the very same thing that made me monstrous to some people also empowered me and made me who I was.

Man People Me Growing Up Feel Gay

I find the trick to playing a villain is that you can't be bad for the sake of being bad. It has to be rooted in some sort of heartbreak.

Villain You Bad Find Heartbreak

There's nothing I have to hide or defend. I'm gonna live my life. And there are times when people wanna try to attack me, and I don't know why, but they will. And that's okay.

Life Live People Me My Life Hide

If Confucius wasn't born, the long night would have no bright lamp.

Night Long Born Bright Lamp Would

We are a nation of innovators and problem-solvers who sparked revolutions in democratic government, civil rights, communications, flight, rural electrification and technology. We are a country defined by ideals now in need of rescue.

Stanley A. McChrystal

Technology Government Country Flight

It all comes together. It's - that's the way it's always worked for me with songwriting.

Together Me Way Songwriting Always

All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself.

Time Myself Childhood Think Moments

You just can't spend any time second-guessing yourself.

Time Yourself You Just Any Spend

There's lots of prejudice, but if you examine yourself, you can make It. Of course, this doesn't make me too popular with some quarters in the women s movement.

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

Women Yourself Me You Prejudice

I'm just honored that people still like us and people are still nice to me.

People Me Nice Honored Us Just

I grew up in Flagstaff, and I still own my old family house up there, so I go up there a couple of times a month just to sit for a day or two and work without any kind of interruption, and I usually take a dinner break, and I'll watch two hours of DVD.

Work Family Day Dinner House Kind

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