I’m here to say enough is enough, and that folks who look like me should feel that there is an opportunity for them in the Republican Party. I’m proud to be in this party, I’m proud to be endorsed by President Trump.
I’ve always been one of those folks who think competition is actually a good thing. And if we’re going to preach it as a party, we need to practice it.
We need to change America’s image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how folks aspire to be like us.
I believe that we need to think very seriously, particularly as folks of color and progressives, about building either a new party or a new movement that can hold the Democratic Party accountable or provide a meaningful alternative.
America enjoys the best health care in the world, but the best is no good if folks can’t afford it, access it and doctor’s can’t provide it.
Three times before, in the 1850s, the 1890s, and the 1920s, oligarchs took over the American government and threatened to destroy democracy. In each case, they overreached, and regular folks took back their government.
At the time we were all just very young people who wanted to have fun and do pictures in a different way than the old folks did it – make it all more spontaneous and more alive and more natural.
Town meetings are not bean bag. I’ve had hundreds of them, and sometimes folks get upset. And that’s part of America, part of our process.
I know two L.A.s. Half my life was around the house my folks had for 46 years at 3rd and Norton. The other half was in Boyle Heights on the Eastside, working with gang members.
Folks, I mean to keep my word. And if I don’t, I’ll give you my address and some rope. That’s real accountability.
As for the cartoonists ‘Oily’ prints, they are just artists I admire. I am lucky to be friends with most of them so it was easy to contact them. Some have come to me but mainly they are just folks that I admire.
I found poetry at 12 and 13 and, lo and behold, learned that my attorney father had a background in poetry – as he wore dashikis and Afros in the ’70s and named his kids Arabic names. He was a poet and a lot like The Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron and all of these folks. He definitely was an artist.
These days the technology can solve our problems and then some. Solutions may not only erase physical or mental deficits but leave patients better off than ‘able-bodied’ folks. The person who has a disability today may have a superability tomorrow.
Poverty is a relationship that involves a lot of folks, rich and poor alike. I was looking for something that brought a lot of different people in a room. Eviction does that, embroils landlords and tenants, lawyers and social workers.
I first started actually playing guitar when I was eleven years old. I had some neighborhood friends who told me they were starting a band and needed a guitarist. I told my folks, and by the next day I had a guitar lesson set up with a local teacher.
Money is the fuel that makes political victory possible. Sadly, folks, in many cases it’s more important than ideas. And this is what turns off so many people to politics.
I just want to go through Central Park and watch folks passing by. Spend the whole day watching people. I miss that.
Once in a blue moon, everything will be right with the man in the sky, and when I start singing ‘I Love a Rainy Night,’ from out of nowhere, there will be lightning and thunder. I just say, ‘Folks, we’ve got the best special effects guy in the world, so let’s get wet together.’
Given the volume of PC sales and the way McAfee runs its operation, I imagine there must be thousands of phantom subscribers – folks who signed up once upon a time and left the software behind two or three computers ago.
You can’t have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can’t get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.
I’ve got a lot of folks who want to get rid of TSA, a bunch of them.
The world changes fast, and a lot of the old country folks have a hard time keeping up with it, and it makes them sad.
People who label themselves as ‘realists’ are usually accurate – they see to the real edge of what they know, understand, or believe. At best, these folks tend to be caring worriers.
My second year of Ryerson, I still lived at my folks’ place. I went to the attic to find some prop for a play I was doing. And I found a scrapbook dedicated to my father’s years at Ryerson as an actor. He never mentioned it.
I remember seeing my sister in a play when I was very young, and I remember telling my folks, ‘I want to do that.’
Smoking is definitely not cool anymore, and the folks who have worked against that have done a great job.
The studios gotta start making more stuff where black folks get quality stuff. But I can’t trip about that because I’ve been making movies for 35 years, and I’ve played everything from an old lady to a donkey, so I can’t be on here talking about, ‘They don’t give us enough roles’ and diversity.
I have a lot of respect for the folks over at WWE, and I have a ton of respect for what they’ve accomplished within the industry.
Many smart folks seem to think that if you just get your metaphors and messages right, you’ll win. That if you start describing what you favor as a ‘moral value’ – ‘affordable health care is a moral value’ etc., – then you’ll appeal to red-state voters.
I think more people in the mainstream, folks like Nancy Wilson and Luther Vandross, they have openly expressed their love for God, and when mainstream artists start expressing their love for God openly in their concerts and including gospel songs in their concert, and, you know, people started embracing it.
I’m up here in Cleveland tonight and there are a lot of folks who are concerned about it. Twenty-five percent of the people up here get their health care through religious organizations and so that religious freedom issue is very important to them.
Whenever there’s an opportunity to celebrate the written word and celebrate the folks that read the written word, and, I think, to encourage other writers to write and encourage folks to read more and get connected to it in a personal way, it’s a positive thing.
Folks, the most insidious part of this whole health care scheme is that all of these vast medical expenditures will become nothing more than government budget items. We individuals will no longer exist. The relationship between a government and citizen will change forever.
I think a lot of folks feel like Uber was a company they missed out on. Sequoia passed on us three times.
I make it a priority to keep in touch with people with whom I’ve worked in the past. And I’m fortunate, because I’ve worked with some terrific folks.
I think we need leadership that helps us remember that part of what we are about is caring about more than the person right next to us, but the folks across the way.
There’s no shortage of opinions about our agency, just like every other agency up here – and just like the Congress. I’d encourage our folks not to get too hung up on what I consider to be the noise on TV and in social media.
Most private-sector folks don’t get a pension.
The first 45 or 50 years of the regional theater movement, all these folks, they built these theaters. The job of the next generation is to maintain them.
When you are truly interested in other people, you will learn what they are interested in and if they have a need for your product. If they like you, and most people like folks who take an interest in them, they’ll help you find people who do need what you have to sell, even if they don’t.
We need folks to help us, as opposed to, ‘Let’s find who to blame, and let’s try to bury those people.’
I see it as one of my jobs to make sure that, it sounds ridiculous, but to make sure the folks are eating, make sure folks are getting enough fluids, make sure folks are, you know, comfortable in the orbiter.
