"Riot is the voice of the unheard."

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Source : Los Angeles Times, May 4, 1992.

Maxine Waters

#Voice Quotes #Riot Quotes #Unheard Quotes

“I was always the youngest boy in my class at high school. I have retained this feeling of being the youngest, even though now I am almost the oldest person I know.”
“Grace is God's love in action for those who don't deserve it.”
“The whole first two-thirds of the I Just Can't Stop Loving You song is just he and I. He's singing lead and I'm doing all the harmonies and we're both singing all the background. We're singing all the choruses until the choir comes in. We were the first two-thirds of the song.”
“I even believe if you're killing a team, you shouldn't stop. You should respect your opponents enough to play 100 percent the whole time. And by the same token, if you're getting killed by the other team, you should never quit.”
“Almost everyone who has had an idea that's somewhat revolutionary or wildly successful was first told they're insane.”
“Strong faith is not an emotion. It's a choice.”
“Black people in America have to, for their own protection, develop a defense mechanism, and I just grew terribly tired of it. When you sustain that kind of affront, and sustain it and sustain it and sustain it, something happens to you. You try to steer a course in American society that's not self-destructive. But America is a country that inflicts injury. It does not like to see anything that comes in response, and accuses one of anger as if it were an unnatural response. For anyone who is not white in America, the affronts are virtually across the board.”

Source : Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.
“I enjoy the fact that, as a gay man, there's relatively little pressure on me to act like a grown-up, but also I see the pitfalls that we're susceptible to, addiction, isolation, loneliness, mental illness, not to mention the embarrassing fashion choices.”

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