"I had no idea how much the stuff I was doing was affecting people outside Oakland. At the time, also, hip hop wasn't able to tour because all these clubs that let hip hop come in now, they would never have let hip hop come in."

-- Boots Riley

#Oakland Quotes #Ideas Quotes #People Quotes

“Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.”
“This future is ours to embrace. Whether we, the established generations, choose to accept that is in our court.”

Source : "The Future Has Voted" by Rosario Dawson, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 7, 2012.
“We must look after our own before lining the pockets of overseas countries and investors.”

Source : "Revisit Pauline Hanson's infamous maiden speech". www.sbs.com.au. August 1, 2016.
“I've always liked rooms where the party hasn't started yet...I love the feeling that anything could happen. After the party, when anything already has happened, there's usually the inevitable fact to face that anything wasn't all you'd hoped it to be.”
“The happiest people are those with the fewest regrets. It is not because they have succeeded in everything they've tried; rather, they're happier because they at least put forth the effort - win or lose -and tried to make their thoughts and dreams a reality.”
“To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.”
“Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery?”
“Those who read in a second language write and spell better in that language.”

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