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Booker T. Washington

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DAVID BOOKER This is just one of many good stretches for me. Coach told me to set the tone for the team. I think ...
DAVID BOOKER This world has a way of trying to homogenize you. Trying to sanitize you. Trying to scrub you of you...
CORY BOOKER I am happy that the urgency to reform our broken criminal justice system has found allies all across...
CORY BOOKER Democracy is not a spectator sport. It is a difficult, hard, full-contact, participatory endeavor.
CORY BOOKER Everybody wants to find their soul mate, and I'm no different. That's definitely what I want...
CORY BOOKER As a government leader, I'm not going to sit on the sidelines and watch all these other sectors ...
CORY BOOKER I think that whatever administration that comes in must take a hard look at that project and make su...
CORY BOOKER People are always trying to draw simplistic dialectics that can capture things.
CORY BOOKER As I review the great history of our nation, community organizers have been at the center of so many...
CORY BOOKER Blind Willie Johnson is a pretty big vocal influence. He can be very harsh, like gargly, gruff vocal...
BENJAMIN BOOKER Folk-punk artists like This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb or Paul Baribeau were popular in the Florida punk co...
BENJAMIN BOOKER Music helped me to get out of a rough period in my life when I really struggled to see any future fo...
BENJAMIN BOOKER I've grown up on gospel and blues music, and now it's a huge part of who I am.
BENJAMIN BOOKER New Orleans style is funky - it's just as experimental as the city. There aren't any rules. ...
BENJAMIN BOOKER I've been making music since I was 14, but for a while, I was afraid to perform.
BENJAMIN BOOKER I guess I would call my music 'blues punk.' There's a lot of influences.
BENJAMIN BOOKER I went to school in Gainesville because it was a huge punk and folk town. So I went to class twice a...
BENJAMIN BOOKER I don't think I ever wanted to be a journalist - I was more interested in what comes from being ...
BENJAMIN BOOKER My sister is an opera singer. I grew up going to her recitals. This whole time, I'm like, 'S...
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