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Boots Riley Quotes

When people listen to Jay-Z, they're working all day or trying to work and pay their bills, and what they hear is someone who's free. Who doesn't have to worry about the electricity. But all we're taught is that those who are rich deserve to be rich because they worked harder than the rest of us, or they're smarter.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Work Day People Free Rest Rich

Sometimes simple accessories are all you need when your dress speaks for itself.

Simple Dress You Sometimes Need

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.

Great Madness Divide Sure Wits Thin

A question is a question at the end of the day. It's up to me if I want to answer them.

Day Me End Of The Day End Want Up

It's so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones.

Expectations Big Easier Than Much

The rich get richer. Not only because they have surpluses with which to invest, but because of the overriding emotional release they experience from having wealth.

Experience Rich Wealth Emotional Get

I don't like the word 'poetry,' and I don't like poetry readings, and I usually don't like poets. I would much prefer describing myself and what I do as: I'm kind of a curator, and I'm kind of a night-owl reporter.

Myself Poetry Kind Would Reporter

It is about the American people. When something is not ready, it is not working, it is not right, then we owe it to them to do the right thing and say, 'Let's hold.'

Do The Right Thing People American

It is a myth that married women do not get work. Those days are gone now. So, if you think I hid my marriage for that reason, it's not true.

Work Marriage Women Think You True

I lived in several hotels, yeah. You have to try to make it home.

Home You Try Lived Make Hotels

When someone hears that I've written a book about 1897, I'm usually met with blank stares. And the first thing they say is, 'Was there even an L.A. back then?' A lot of people don't even think there was a city before the movies appeared. That concept of Los Angeles is so strong in the popular imagination that celebrity overrides everything.

Imagination People City Book Think

I've learned in my life that you really don't know what's possible until you're already doing it.

Life My Life Doing You Possible

The World Coming Down tour was around four years ago, and other than the wear and tear we've all sustained in the last four years, nothing much has changed.

World Down Nothing Years Coming

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