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Boots Riley Quotes

I was in an organization called Progressive Labor Party and International Committee Against Racism. And I was - I started out helping to organize a farm workers' union in Central California.

Boots Riley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Racism Organization Farm Party Labor

I'm totally in control of this tiny, tiny world right there at the typewriter.

Joan Didion

Control World Right Typewriter Tiny

It's weird for me to say I'm lucky when I can't go into a bookstore and have more than five choices if I want to read something about Asian-American characters.

Jenny Zhang

Me Choices Weird Go Say Want

Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.

Andrew Young

Nothing Decide Businessmen Illegal

I had just arrived in New York from California. I was nineteen years old and excited beyond belief. I was an art student and an acting student and behaved as most young actors did - meaning that there was no such thing as a good actor, 'cause you yourself hadn't shown up yet.

Robert Redford

Good Art Yourself New York Acting

The Democrats have come right out and said it: the power of the central government shall have no limits at all.

Mia Love

Power Government Limits Said Right

I like pin-up girls. I'm more of a boy than a girl. I'm not a lesbian, though - not before a sambuca anyway.

Amy Winehouse

Girl Boy More Lesbian Like Than

What I can do as the member of the United States Senate is try to do everything I can to keep America safe.

Tom Cotton

America I Can Try Everything Safe

I think I have always made really beat-driven pop-rock records.

Mat Kearney

Think Always Records Made I Think

Since I've got on the Internet, it's opened a whole world of wasted time for me. My wife says she's an Internet widow.

Mick Ralphs

Time Wife Me World Internet She

Our utilitarian structures will mature into architecture only when, through their fulfillment of function, they become carriers of the will of the age.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Age Architecture Mature Will Become

'The Muthaship' was an experiment. All my friends are working at Endemol, so they just kind of pushed me into it to see if we could shoot a little web series on an iPhone - and that's what we did: we shot it on an iPhone. So it's so experiential and so silly.

Drea De Matteo

Me Friends Silly Kind iPhone See

I keep my eyes closed a lot when I'm singing because sometimes it's distracting to see people.

Conor Oberst

Eyes People Singing Sometimes See