Opal Tometi Quotes

Fortunately, the leadership of black immigrant communities has always been present in all black liberation movements from leaders like Marcus Garvey to Shirley Chisholm to Malcolm X and Harry Belafonte. We know this is our legacy.

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The collapse of Enron was devastating to tens of thousands of people and shook the public's confidence in corporate America.

Robert Mueller

ConfidencePeopleAmericaCorporate

Unsuccessful businessmen and workers do not have the same animus against the capitalist system as do the wordsmith intellectuals. Only the sense of unrecognized superiority, of entitlement betrayed, produces that animus.

Robert Nozick

SameEntitlementSystemWorkersOnly

Cambridge is one of the best universities in the world, especially in my field.

Stephen Hawking

BestWorldCambridgeField

I am actually incredibly contented and jolly. But, and I have no idea why this is, I have a really strong empathy with all kinds of warped and destructive modes of thinking. I don't know why, but those things co-exist.

Sophie Hannah

I AmEmpathyStrongThinkingKnow

I don't know what happens if they get bin Laden. I'm much more interested in what happens if they don't get bin Laden.

Robert Fisk

KnowMoreGetHappensInterested

I was not easy to cast, but also, I have never been typecast.

Roger Lloyd-Pack

EasyNeverBeenCastAlsoTypecast

I avoid conflict - like, any conflict - at all costs. I hate it. Even at a restaurant, if I get the wrong order, I'll just eat it anyway because I don't want to make an issue.

Robin Lord Taylor

HateConflictRestaurantWrongWant

One thing that I miss because we spend a lot of time in America is English food, like cooked breakfast and Sunday dinners.

Louis Tomlinson

TimeFoodBreakfastAmericaSunday

At the final day, the Savior will not ask about the nature of our callings. He will not inquire about our material possessions or fame. He will ask if we ministered to the sick, gave food and drink to the hungry, visited those in prison, or gave succor to the weak.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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You really have to be careful about what you do and think about other people around you, as human beings who feel things, and you have to learn to be empathetic and notice the signs of people who are going through trouble.

Devin Druid

PeopleThinkFeelLearnYouTrouble

Some days I'm lucky to squeeze out a page of copy that pleases me, but I get as many as six or seven pages on a very good day; the average is probably three pages.

Dean Koontz

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Accepting that part of the process of writing is deleting a lot of what you write is soothing, at least to me.

Brad Feld

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