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"He's probably the fastest guy on the field at any time...And he's the quarterback."
"I've heard from people that the first time you see Pat, you think you have an angle and you don't...He's such an explosive player that there are times when there's people around him and he either outruns the angle or makes somebody miss...Pat was able to do everything, and I've said this many times, I think Pat White is one of the best players in the country and he gets a chance to prove it every week."
"Lets you and I try to live on food stamps in New Jersey (high cost of living) and feed a family for a week or month. U game?"
"The reality is we have to make sure that we have a military that’s prepared, but right now, we have more military spending than the next 10, 11, 12 countries combined, and we’ve got to start realizing that we can secure and protect ourselves, but also be responsible in the way that we do that," Booker said. And it’s not unpatriotic to say that we’re spending too much money. In fact, to me, that’s the patriotic thing to say."
"We are brick city. We are like bricks themselves. We are strong. We are resilient. We are enduring."
"Immediately I knew that was problematic [being paired on a television show with John Lewis]. Because the show starts with our bios, and it starts with, ‘John Lewis, hero of the civil rights movement stood on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. … He literally bled the southern soil red. And then it goes to me. ‘Cory Booker, riding his Big Wheel in affluent suburbia, falls off and skins his knee: He bled the New Jersey soil red.’ And so you are very aware if you were born after the civil rights movement, if you were born in my generation, that you stand on the shoulders of giants."
"We prove worthy of the privileges that we have not by paying anything back, but by paying it forward."
"I want to try to live my own values as consciously and purposefully as I can. Being vegan for me is a cleaner way of not participating in practices that don’t align with my values. … As soon as I said publicly that I was trying this experiment, so many vegans out there, hundreds and hundreds of people, have been reaching out to me with incredible support and encouragement as well as practical tips of how to do this without having to sacrifice that much in terms of the food and what I like. I've discovered some really delicious things—recipes, stores, and restaurants—that have made this transition far easier. … There's too much judgment out there. Really what we need to be doing is just all of us finding our own paths towards living the best lives we can live as clearly and boldly in accordance with our own personal values."
"Cynicism about America’s current state of affairs is ultimately a form of surrender."
"We make a grave mistake when we assume this spirit of connectedness is automatic or inevitable. It is not a birthright. A united country is an enduring struggle. It takes collective work and individual sacrifice. It is not enough to call on others or wait for a leader to emerge who will exalt our national values. I believe this is the question we face, as citizens of this nation: what will we do to affirm this most critical American virtue?"
"Most people think that these high-density poor neighborhoods, predominately people of color, just came about through some accident of history, but they were the conscious creation [of institutional racism]."
"What would you do if you could not fail. Answer that question and do that."
"I respect and value the ideals of rugged individualism and self-reliance. But rugged individualism didn’t defeat the British, it didn’t get us to the moon, build our nation’s highways, or map the human genome. We did that together."
"When ignorance and bigotry is allied with power, it is a dangerous force."
"We say an oath that we are a nation of liberty and justice for all, but that’s just words. It’s a civic faith, but I’m one of these people that says before you, "tell me about your religion, first show it to me in how you treat other people." Well, how are we living our civic gospel? How are we living our civic gospel that demands for us to reject the normalcy of injustice, the normalcy of apathy, the normalcy of indifference, and rise to the higher ground of activism, of engagement, of love?"
"I’m a big believer that if America, if this country hasn’t broken your heart, then you don’t love her enough. Because there’s things that are savagely wrong in this country."
"I’m not here to tell folk just what they should know, I’m here to call on folk to understand that in a moral moment, there is no neutral. In a moral moment, there is no bystanders. You are either complicit in evil, you are either contributing to wrong, or you are fighting against it."
"There is great dignity in work – and in America, if you want to provide for your family, you should be able to find a full-time job that pays a fair wage. The federal jobs guarantee is an idea that demands to be taken seriously. Creating an employment guarantee would give all Americans a shot at a day’s work and, by introducing competition into the labor market, raise wages and improve benefits for all workers."
"The vicious attack on actor Jussie Smollett was an attempted modern-day lynching. I'm glad he's safe. To those in Congress who don't feel the urgency to pass our Anti-Lynching bill designating lynching as a federal hate crime– I urge you to pay attention."
"You encouraging me means more to me than you can imagine (After Jimmy Carter hoped Booker run for president)."
"The "power of the people" is greater than the "people in power" ... Change does not come from Washington, it comes to Washington."
"We are a part of this take-down culture where people are trying to twist your words."
"Sometimes you go in the pit before you go to the palace, right? You know? And that was the story of Saint Joseph ... Martin Luther King was slain, they wrote the words from Joseph's brothers when they threw Joseph in the well ... "Behold, here cometh the dreamer. Let us slay him, and see what becomes of his dream". Now, King has fallen but his dream has not died, and we are the keepers of the dream. And so, do not give up hope, do not give up faith, alright?"
"Working Americans would tell you that the dignity of work is being stripped ... they are working harder than their parents and falling further behind ... while their salaries may moderately have gone up, what has gone up more is the cost of prescription drugs ... child care ... college ..."
"You are dipping into the Kool-aid and you do not even know the flavor (After Joe Biden criticized Booker's anti-crime work as Newark mayor)."
"We cannot let these conversations devolve into the impotent simplicity of "Who is or is not a racist?" Because, if the answer to the question "Do racism and white supremacy exist?" is "yes", then the real question is not "Who is or is not a racist?", but "Who is or is not doing something about it?""
"... marijuana in our country is already legal for privileged people ... the war on drugs has been a war on black and brown people."
"I don’t think most Americans realize that the way we raise animals is such a betrayal of the heritage of our grandparents. I don’t think they realize that … these big companies like and and others have our American farmers now living like in constant debt, forced to follow their rules. I’ve watched the suffering in North Carolina of minority communities who live around and can no longer breathe their air … and I’ve seen workers in the meatpacking plants and how dangerous those plants are. Everybody is losing in this system – except for the massive corporations that have taken over the American food system."
"I got a chance to witness firsthand what I think many people in America can relate to, is when you show up in a room qualified, when you show up in a room with extraordinary expertise and credentials, there are a lot of Americans who know that hurt, that you are still going to be treated in a way that does not respect to you fully"
"... many millions of Americans are literally going to be hurt, because when they are sick, they will not be able to afford to go to the doctor. When they go to the Emergency Room, the lines will be 2 times as long. We are in a crisis. We need a president to stand up, and bring us together to help to solve the problems of the American people."
"Unnecessary hardship is being borne by Americans of all backgrounds; our institutions are being recklessly and unconstitutionally attacked and even shattered. In just 71 days, the President has inflicted harm after harm on Americans' safety; financial stability; the foundations of our democracy; and any sense of common decency. These are not normal times in our nation. And they should not be treated as such in the United States Senate. The threats to the American people and American democracy are grave and urgent and we all must do more to stand against them. Generations from now will look back at this moment and have a single question — where were you?"
"I don’t want a Disneyfication of our history. I don’t want to whitewash history. I don’t want to homogenize history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness."
"You have to learn to be black, and we don’t have time to teach you."
"Cory Booker has dedicated his life to the work of building hope and opportunity in communities where too little of either existed."
"He has done lots of stunts designed to make people aware of poverty, or at least to make people aware of Cory Booker's awareness of poverty."
"The contrast between the Republicans’ laser-focus on creating jobs, allowing workers to keep more of their hard-earned paychecks, and the safety of our communities, and the message of big-government socialism and open borders folks will hear at Netroots Nation from coastal elites like ... Cory Booker ... could not be more stark ... While Senator Cory Booker called the policies that created this windfall for workers “reckless, unjust, and just plain cruel,” Americans everywhere are seeing more money in their paychecks and new opportunity to achieve the American Dream."
"If Cory Booker is the future of the Democratic Party, they have no future! I know more about Cory than he knows about himself."
"I miss Kamala, I miss Cory. Though, I think Cory will be back!"
"I got a phone call [after Obama got elected] from someone from the UK and they said 'President Barack Obama just got elected, the first African-American president. Yet you did not support him. Wasn't that a bit awkward?' And I said 'For him or for me?'"
"[About Barack Obama being elected president in 2008:] I didn't think it made some deep statement about America. I'm in Los Angeles and in, I think it was 1969, LA, which was the third largest city at the time, voted for a black mayor and voted for him four times. He ran twice for governor of California, the largest state in the union, and barely lost both times. And so I thought a statement was made a long time ago of how fair America is and Obama just came along and benefited from it. [...] [According to a 2007 Gallup poll examining prejudice against race, gender, age and religion], Obama had a lower hurdle, an easier path to the White House than [his opponents Hillary Clinton, John McCain, and Mitt Romney], who were far more well funded and far more experienced and far better known. So don't give me this crap about how Obama somehow made a statement about how fair America is. America has been fair for a very very long period of time and he simply benefited from the changing racial attitudes that Americans have been engaging in for decades."
"[My father] was a life-long Republican [...] My father used to always say Democrats want to give you something for nothing. And when you're trying to get something for nothing you almost always end up getting nothing for something."
"The idea that the Georgia voting law is voter oppression, you're saying black people can't figure out how to vote? It's insulting!"
"As long as, every night, a black child does less homework than a white child, and substantially less homework than an Asian-American child, we're always going to have this problem. Which means it comes back to the home."
"Race has never been less significant a factor in American success, but it has never been more significant a factor for the Democratic party's success."
"I argue the left is the problem. They don't want to hear thoughtful disagreement whether its about climate change, whether its about racism, whether its about what the welfare state has done to the family. [...] So I urge my friends on the left to look into the mirror and ask yourself: Do you really want to have a conversation or do you really want to just denounce the other side?"
"I like where the ball was landing under [Donald Trump's presidency]. Don't look at his swing! I didn't follow him on Twitter [...] because I thought he tweeted too much on stuff I didn't care about. But I care about where the ball landed on immigration. I care about where the ball landed on the economy, on regulation, on putting conservatives on the courts. I cared about all that stuff and for my money he deserves an A+, in the face of relentless hostility. 91% of the media: negative news. Much of his own party: negative. And still this guy persevered and barely lost the election. Americans didn't repudiate Trump's policies, they repudiated Trump's personality."
"Let's all watch Alec Baldwin blame the gun."
"Poor, Paul Pelosi. First, he’s busted for DUI, and then gets attacked in his home. Hammered twice in six months."
"Larry Elder is a dangerous idiot. And I mean Trump level dangerous."
"Almost everything Washington said or did was shot through with a certain irony. He bowed before the prejudices of the meanest Southerner, but he moved in circles in the North which were closed to all but a few white men. He told Negroes that Jim Crow was irrelevant, but he himself violated the law by riding first class in Pullman cars with Southern white men and women. And irony of ironies: he who advised Negroes to forget about politics wielded more political power than any other Negro in American history."
"I founded this organization as a result of recognizing the lack of prevention and recovery resources centered around women that looked like me."
"I was searching for a community to heal with, and there was nowhere for me to go."
"I consider myself a late bloomer in many elements of entrepreneurship."
"I’m constantly learning something new."
"The transition definitely wasn’t easy."
"Nothing in my background was remotely close to entrepreneurship or business management."
"I was a resident dance teacher for various schools in Baltimore City."
"I had zero business experience and no college degree."
"I had experience pushing myself, and I understand now that the grit, ambition and determination necessary to show up to ballet auditions prepared me for this journey."
"We facilitated a number of listening sessions and did customer discovery to find out what resources the community lacked and created programming and partnerships that filled in those gaps."
"I was given when getting set up on social media."
"I was able to pilot languages, images, captions and taglines that really helped me understand my audience and customer persona."
"Thank you so much for having me."
"I am the founder and CEO of Ballet After Dark."
"We are a nonprofit organization based in Baltimore City, that provides trauma informed program somatic interventions."
"Our other programs focus on engagement, exposure, and art enhancement and appreciation."
"We do believe that allowing for survivors to be reintroduced to some type of routine really, really complements their healing journey."
"So that's why we wanted to make sure that when we were developing our programing, we had a variety for them to choose from."
"Putting power back into their hands and letting us know how they want to heal."
"We've created, a few different ways for us to, connect with community."
"Some of it is through strategic referral partnerships that we've built with charter schools, other victim service organizations."
"They focus on survivor justice and also just through creative word of mouth advertising."
"It was when I really started understanding that in order for me to receive corrections while I'm in the studio."
"I have to develop a sense of comfort."
"I had about allowing people into my personal space, I had to let that go."
"I was paying attention to how I was feeling and how I was changing emotionally when I was in the studio."
"I was noticing how it didn't feel like a chore."
"I think one of the biggest challenges that survivors face is identifying as a survivor."
"A lot of the trauma we endure is conditioned to be treated as either a rite of passage."
"I would probably say instead of dissecting whether or not you, as an individual, would be considered a survivor."
"You have to kind of separate yourself from it."
"You have to take into account every element that went into this traumatic situation and you have to break it down."
"I like to think that healing requires an innovative and holistic approach."
"I like what we provide should be done in conjunction with your traditional mental health care."
"We tried too early on to push our stuff out there to the bigger people — like the ones you mentioned [Netflix and Amazon]. It quickly turned into a ‘no,’ but I think with the success of the shows and us doing it on our own kind of proved to me that we can do this by ourselves"
"We don’t need to have anybody else, but we definitely tried, and it was a lot of ‘no’s.’ So I think that was the reason why we went and banked on ourselves [and] put all our money into it. So it’s just me and my own personal production company 4Lifers"
"That’s what I want to build. You ain’t gotta understand this. You have to surround yourself with good people and hardworking people that have the same vision as you"
"It was a collaborative approach on the creative where they gave me the freedom to interject personalities from my world into the content, which helped to organically connect the two spaces. It was entertaining to play various school characters while highlighting SNIPES in a fresh way. I look forward to continued work with SNIPES as they’ve shown they are authentic and true to the culture"
"I graduated twelve years ago, barely…That’s what made my personality today — that school"
"The same school I was getting kicked out of is is the same school I’m shooting the commercial at n"
"I mainly do it for the fans, knowing that I can do it myself. And now that I have money from brand deals and people that I work with to do it, it’s like I don’t need another company to come in"
"We’re very picky about who we work with"
"For the majority of my company, For Life Entertainment, we try to make sure that we have a say in any of the stuff that we’re putting out, or any of the commercial stuff"
"So many people are starting to find out that they can do it themselves, which is why I pride myself on what we have done"
"I hope others will follow that same process and know that if you are getting money from these companies, don’t just think that you have to go buy a car or go buy a big house"
"A smart thing you can do is try to build your own IP and try to build your own business around you"
"Expect the unexpected. It's like talking to your family members, and making everybody laugh"
"People being real. It's got to be real to make me laugh. Either it's real, or someone's told me a bold-face lie. I think it's funny because if they think I believe that, they must be crazy"
"A woman's prayer, how powerful it is in a man's life. If you get a woman on your side to pray for you, things can change in a different way"
"We speak of real life and with real drama that's going on, and situations people know of and have heard of. If you watch a Kountry Wayne sketch, you're going to get a lot of situations"
"Just know they're coming to see the real. We'll be there all the way live, and I've come to make them laugh"
"Now, a lot of people like, ‘Wayne, you leaving millions of dollars on the table,’ but the reason being, I tell everybody when God tells you to move, you got to move sometimes"
"Sometimes you got to lose to win. Everything I got going right now, I put it on the backburner for standup for years. If y’all can remember, back in the day, when I went and did standup, I had to stop doing social media content"
"Everybody was mad because I had to leave social media, but I had to leave social media to become the person I am in standup today"
"Now, I’m leaving standup because there’s a lot of stuff in Hollywood that I got going on that I got to do. And, God got a lot in me, and creating these ideas that I put together, which is the ideas that you love"
"It was great. This one was a little bit different. I didn’t have two great rounds, and had to rely on my experience to get me through the final"
"But I knew what I had to do, I knew what I was missing. With that being said, a big shout-out to the sports staff. Everybody was telling me, ’You’ve done this a million times before, you’ve just got to do it again"
"It’s a world championships, you’ll always have nerves for the world championships wherever you’re at"
"I think I can put grace in it and hang up the 60m hurdles and try out a new event next year"
"To win three indoors and three outdoors, I think I’m the first person in history to ever do that. That’s an amazing stat"
"But I’m young, I’ve got a lot of races under my belt, so I’ll take this with a grain of salt and I keep moving forward"
"This was not the outcome that I wanted but it enables me to say I’m an Olympic medalist"
"I put myself in these high-pressure situations. I just wanted to just make sure that when the gun went off, I took care of my lane, my space. So I put enough of a gap to where I kind of had it squared away. I just had to make sure I didn't knock down any hurdles"
"It's a lot of mental work"
"You need a lot of mental fortitude. I say, ‘Alright, if I don't do this, let's do some push-ups.' It's like a punishment. You put yourself through those situations so that you know exactly what you need to do to win"
"And you know, my coach calls me crazy sometimes because I kept saying, ‘Again, again, again, again.’ I just want to make sure that practice makes permanent. And as I always say, ‘Permanent makes paper"
"I’ve accomplished all my lifetime goals"
"I turned pro in 2019, so in almost five years I accomplished everything that I wanted to do in track and field. So this is the tough part, I have to continue to find ways to get motivated"