Majora Carter Quotes

#1. You know, people understand fear and opportunity. It may look different, but it's really the same thing.

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#2. My real dream is that everybody will see their self-interest tied up with someone else, whether or not they see them, and see that as an opportunity for growing closer together as a culture and as a world.

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#3. Many people still believe that 'green' solutions are too expensive, but they are actually much cheaper when all of the costs to public health, social services, and waste handling are factored into the same equation.

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#4. Just because you have a piece of trash and you throw it away and it gets hauled away, it doesn't mean that it's not affecting someone else.

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#5. These days I am a teetotal, mean-spirited, right-wing, narrow-minded, conservative Christian bigot, but not a racist.

Jane Russell

#6. I'm just trying to make my favorite music. That's how I work; I just do things based on the way they feel to me. I want to be touched by the music I'm making. Luckily, other people have shared that response to my work over the years.

Rick Rubin

#7. One thing I noticed working in the Bronx is that leaders come in the craziest places. They don't always show up at community board meetings. Sometimes it's just the guys on the corner that the boys on the block respect.

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#8. We've got to decide that we want to live in a world that is sane and happy and healthy, and that everyone deserves that.

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#9. Working through experience is best for me, just being there and trying to get into the mode.

Ludacris

#10. Race and class are extremely reliable indicators as to where one might find the good stuff, like parks and trees, and where one might find the bad stuff, like power plants and waste facilities.

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#11. I am a local economic revitalization strategist. But I am also a TV/radio host, and a small business owner. I find ways to use money more efficiently to realize positive goals for everyone.

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#12. No reprimand in the mirror
Slow walk to Liberia
Slow dance across the Sahara
Slow unraveling of gray matter

Mellon Black

#13. As a black person in America, I am twice as likely as a white person to live in an area where air pollution poses the greatest risk to my health. I am five times more likely to live within walking distance of a power plant or chemical facility - which I do.

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#14. Neither the Destruction of the Ninth Ward Nor the South Bronx Was Inevitable

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#15. If we are going to be part of the solution, we have to engage the problems.

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#16. I also finally see that a crimson kiss isn't something you can chase, because it's more than just the passionate meeting of mouths.
It's a confession.
It's the truth your lips whisper to someone you love.

Wendelin Van Draanen

#17. There's a common misunderstanding among all the human beings who have ever been born on the earth that the best way to live is to try to avoid pain and just try to get comfortable.

Pema Chodron

#18. It's time to stop building the shopping malls, the prisons, the stadiums and other tributes to all of our collective failures. It is time that we start building living monuments to hope and possibility.

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#19. Environmental justice [means that] no community should be saddled with more environmental burdens and less environmental benefits than any other.

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#20. We want to bring enterprise back to blighted urban areas. People there have been told nothing is ever going to change. The policy makers may feel the same way.

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#21. Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.

Pope John XXIII

#22. Sustainable South Bronx advocates for environmental justice through sustainable environmental and economic development projects.

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#23. What's popular in places considered ghettos - whether that's the inner city or Appalachia - is having a decent quality of life.

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#24. You shouldn't have to leave your neighborhood to live in a better one,

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#25. Before people figured out I was funny, I got cast quite a bit as either a rapist or serial killer or the guy who catches those people.

Nick Offerman

#26. To me, charity often is just about giving, because you're supposed to, or because it's what you've always done - or it's about giving until it hurts.

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