Oakland Quotes

• If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys' home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Police Brutality Center.

  Tupac Shakur

  Family, Home, Winning

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Growing up in northern California has had a big influence on my love and respect for the outdoors. When I lived in Oakland, we would think nothing of driving to Half Moon Bay and Santa Cruz one day and then driving to the foothills of the Sierras the next day.

  Tom Hanks

  Growing Up, Thinking, Moon

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• We have always had great and loyal fans in Oakland.

  Jim Otto

  Fans, Loyal, Loyal Fans

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• Oakland is home, and you always want to go home. Anytime you get the chance, you're happy to go home.

  Rickey Henderson

  Baseball, Home, Want

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• Oakland revolved around Forbes Field. Nothing in the city could match that atmosphere.

  Willie Stargell

  Cities, Atmosphere, Fields

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• I like playing for Oakland, they have a very colorful uniform.

  Rickey Henderson

  Uniforms, Colorful

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• Why can't DFW compete like San Francisco does with Oakland, like Miami does with Fort Lauderdale, and like Chicago O'Hare does with Midway?

  John Ensign

  San Francisco, Competition, Miami

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• What was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about it if I like or anything if I like but not there, there is no there there.

  Gertrude Stein

  Writing, Use, Natural

  Everybody's Autobiography ch. 4 (1937)

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• I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Football, Rocks, Band

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• I think I just went into a system that was willing to utilize me and gave me opportunities and I felt fortunate to be able to go to Oakland and put the silver and black on. I wanted to prove to everybody that I could still play.

  Jerry Rice

  Opportunity, Thinking, Play

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• My dream was to play football for the Oakland Raiders. But my mother thought I would get hurt playing football, so she chose baseball for me. I guess moms do know best.

  Rickey Henderson

  Mom, Baseball, Football

  Major League Baseball Hall of Fame Induction Speech, delivered 26 July 2009, Cooperstown, OH

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• During those long years in Oakland public schools, I did not have one teacher who taught me anything relevant to my own life or experience. Not one instructor ever awoke in me a desire to learn more or to question or to explore the worlds of literature, science, and history. All they did was try to rob me of the sense of my own uniqueness and worth, and in the process nearly killed my urge to inquire.

  Huey Newton

  Teacher, School, Years

  "Revolutionary Suicide". Book by Huey P. Newton, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1973.

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• Oh, my other goal was that I wanted to talk about this area and this time in history. I wanted to talk about growing up in Oakland, a white kid, from this kind of generation of broken homes and listening to hip-hop.

  Moshe Kasher

  Growing Up, Kids, Home

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. June 6, 2012.

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• The murder rate in Chicago is skyrocketing, and you see who's doing it and perpetrating it - they all look like Chief Keef. When it comes to the point that, you know, that kids who are doing the killings, and they're kids 13 to 19 years old, and you can replicate that in New Orleans, you can replicate that in Oakland. All the kids look the same.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Kids, Years, New Orleans

  "Lupe Fiasco Considers Retirement After Chief Keef Spat" by Nadeska Alexis, www.mtv.com. September 9, 2012.

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• I grew up in Oakland and Berkeley, California.

  G-Eazy

  California, Grew Up, Berkeley

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• It seemed like a matter of minutes when we began rolling in the foothills before Oakland and suddenly reached a height and saw stretched out ahead of us the fabulous white city of San Francisco on her eleven mystic hills with the blue Pacific and its advancing wall of potato-patch fog beyond, and smoke and goldenness in the late afternoon of time.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wall, Fog, Blue

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.250, Penguin

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• All the clothes in my closet are Oakland, California, clothes. You can't wear those anywhere else. The barometric pressure drops and then where are you?

  Mary Roach

  California, Clothes, Pressure

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• 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

  Ideas, People, Hip Hop

  Source: therumpus.net

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• As long as each day comes with a nice fresh cup of Oakland Coffee then everything will be alright.

  Mike Dirnt

  Nice, Coffee, Long

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library.

  Bill Russell

  Library, Cards, Prized Possessions

  Bill Russell, Taylor Branch (1980). “Second wind: the memoirs of an opinionated man”

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• I was on a panel with light skinned Blacks and a famous gay science fiction writer, who were complaining about how Blacks are against gays and light skinned Blacks and how intolerant Blacks are of different groups. My position was that Blacks were among the most humanistic, tolerant groups in the country and that across the street from my house in Oakland was one inhabited by White gays.

  Ishmael Reed

  Country, Gay, Light

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I got a job as a dishwasher in Oakland, and I would draw all day. It was nice because the lady who ran the boardinghouse where I worked let me live there for nothing if I gave her some drawings every week - mostly park drawings of birds and such.

  Claes Oldenburg

  Jobs, Nice, Drawing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Up there we see everything, Oakland to the left, El Cerrito and Richmond to the right, Marin forward, over the Bay, Berkeley below, all red rooftops and trees of cauliflower and columbine, shaped like rockets and explosions, all those people below us, with humbler views; we see the Bay Bridge, clunkety, the Richmond Bridge, straight, low, the Golden Gate, red toothpicks and string, the blue between, the blue above, the gleaming white Land of the Lost/Superman's North Pole Getaway magic crystals that are San Francisco.

  Dave Eggers

  Blue, Views, Bridges

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• The influence that Oakland has on my sound is about 90%. There's so many different elements to Oakland. Of course you have the street elements, but then you also have the culture and there's so much culture around. It's a competitive city, it's full of just great artists and talent. It gave me the confidence, the passion, the realness I try my hardest to portray, so it has had about 90% influence on me.

  Adrian Marcel

  Passion, Artist, Cities

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• Teaching in Providence and Oakland, I realized that the first thing is that it wasn't good enough to come in and assume that I had what my students needed in terms of knowledge and skills. I also had to show them that I was their ally. I had to show them that I was concerned about them, wanted to relate to them, and that I was fundamentally on their side.

  Pedro Noguera

  Teaching, Skills, Firsts

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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