Generations Quotes - Page 40

• I am of the generation of segregation. Black Lives Matter is post. I said today, and I will say all the time, "If Nina [Simone] were here, she'd have her Black Lives Matter [T-shirt] on." I think they're great kids. They don't need me or anybody else to tell them what to do.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Kids, Thinking, Black

  "Nikki Giovanni on Her Friend Nina Simone: If She Were Here, She'd Be Wearing a 'Black Lives Matter' T-Shirt". Interview with Lottie L. Joiner, www.theroot.com. July 20, 2016.

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• Stop the bullsh*t. Stop drawing lines in the sand like previous generations [have done].

  Michael Skolnik

  Drawing, Done, Lines

  "Global Grind Editor Michael Skolnik". Interview with Rachel P. Goldstein, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• You have the older generation like Iris Murdoch and Angus Wilson who are not as old as Graham Greene, but still are coming on. I dare say anyone who knew the scene better than I know it could fill it in with a very satisfactory supply of novels.

  William Golding

  Irises, Scene, Wilson

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I think leading by example is important, as I know the next generation is watching us.

  Michael Skolnik

  Thinking, Important, Example

  "Global Grind Editor Michael Skolnik". Interview with Rachel P. Goldstein, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• [T]he presence of feminism in our lives is taken for granted. For our generation, feminism is like fluoride. We scarcely notice we have it - it's simply in the water.

  Amy Richards

  Taken, Our Generation, Water

  Jennifer Baumgardner, Amy Richards (2010). “Manifesta [10th Anniversary Edition]: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future”, p.17, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• As much as younger women are infused with a greater sense of possibility than most women of preceding generations, as a generation we are generally politically disengaged.

  Amy Richards

  Possibility, Greater

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• I inspired a new generation in the same way the previous generation inspired me. I believe that our democracy itself is very inspiring.

  Donna Brazile

  Believe, Democracy, Way

  Interview with Eric Golub, tygrrrrexpress.com. November 8, 2008.

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• Taking bold climate action now has the potential to unleash the full power of business and at the same time lift millions of people out of poverty. We're the first generation to recognize this and the last generation that will have this opportunity.

  Richard Branson

  Opportunity, Climate Action, People

  "Climate Week: B Team Reminding Business, World Leaders of Undeniable #BusinessCase for Net Zero". "Sustainable Brands" Interview, www.sustainablebrands.com. September 22, 2015.

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• I live in a town that's two and a half hours from the border. I know people who have lived in San Antonio for generations, sometimes seven generations, their families are from there, and they are of Mexican descent, and they've never gone farther than the border.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Two, People, Mexican

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. September 28, 2006.

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• Imagine living in abject poverty and not knowing anything other than that for generations. Or alternatively, imagine being born into a really wealthy family, but there was no real love. Everyone's living these extraordinary, interesting lives whether they know it or not.

  Annie Lennox

  Real, Knowing, Interesting

  "Annie Lennox: Music + Passion + Freedom". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• We have to work together to do a better job than we did in the last few generations.

  Walter Munk

  Jobs, Working Together, Lasts

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• I am passionate about my family, adventure, good wine, nature and the outdoors, sharks, the ocean, and working hard to preserve it all for future generations.

  Mehgan Heaney-Grier

  Ocean, Wine, Adventure

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• Humanity is creating an extinction event that will make every war ever fought a footnote to history. We belong to the only generation in history that can turn this around - we're one step away from greatness or the biggest disaster since the meteor wiped out the dinosaurs.

  Louie Psihoyos

  War, Greatness, Creating

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• It's time to respect the treaties our ancestors signed and care for our land, water, and cultures so that they remain healthy for our future generations.

  Winona LaDuke

  Land, Water, Healthy

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• The thing I've been talking about with daughter is the idea of - and I'm talking about essentially in America - the possibility of, a lost generation. I've been listening to a lot of music - as a fan, as a critic, as somebody who likes to dance - but I hear, you know, within these songs and half the people I hear, these philosophies encoded and embedded in these songs.

  Saul Williams

  Daughter, Song, Philosophy

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• When I look at certain aspects of popular culture - not everything because I like a lot of things - sometimes my heart breaks a little bit, just a little bit. I begin to ponder what happened to this generation, I don't know.

  Saul Williams

  Heart, This Generation, Culture

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Your library teacher would say, "What happens to a generation that doesn't read the Classics?" Me, I'm not your library teacher. But I have some of the same questions and concerns, you know?

  Saul Williams

  Teacher, Library, Concern

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I think we're seeing that the way we've done parenting cannot be sustainable in this generation, for sure.

  Shefali Tsabary

  Thinking, This Generation, Done

  Source: www.chicagonow.com

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• Fighting climate change isn't just an obligation we owe to future generations. It's also an opportunity to improve public health - and drive economic growth - in the here and now.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Fighting, Opportunity, Growth

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• If we don't start acknowledging our correct position as nothing more than a part of the planet as opposed to this perception that we're superior, then we won't have it much longer. We're facing a very turbulent, war-torn, drought-ridden existence for future generations unless we act now.

  Nikki Reed

  War, Perception, Planets

  "19 VIPs Who Get Climate Change Better Than Congress" by Jacqueline Howard, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 4, 2015.

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• It is our hope that when people read "March" - Book One, Book Two, and Book Three - that they will understand that another generation of people, especially young people, were deeply inspired by the work of Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. and many others.

  John Lewis

  Kings, Book, Two

  "John Lewis marches on: “Our struggle is a struggle to redeem the soul of America”". Interview with Philip Eil, www.salon.com. August 9, 2016.

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• We're [also] trying to talk to a generation who grew up on the Internet. They're digital natives, and, essentially, they speak through sequential storytelling. I mean, a good comic-book panel is not that much different than a meme.

  Andrew Aydin

  Book, Mean, Trying

  "John Lewis marches on: 'Our struggle is a struggle to redeem the soul of America'". Interview with Philip Eil, www.salon.com. August 9, 2016.

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• I think in my generation, when I came along in the early '60s, the type of music that was in vogue in society in those days had moved on to another kind of music. I was trying to sell antiques in a modern appliance store.

  Frank Sinatra, Jr.

  Thinking, Trying, Moved On

  Source: www.news-journalonline.com

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• Our generation must fulfill the most noble of duties by ensuring the survival of future generations through the most basic of survival mechanisms - adaptation.

  Leilani Munter

  Our Generation, Survival, Noble

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• There are so many shocking things. Is it more shocking that there are children sold into slavery in every city in the world and right under our noses or that there are villages in Nepal where there are no children left because they have all been kidnapped for sex trafficking, or that there are generations of slaves in some countries where indentured slavery passes from generation to generation and that kids grow into adults not knowing that another world - another life - exists?

  Gillian Anderson

  Country, Sex, Children

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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