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Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.


Booker T. Washington

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DAVID BOOKER This game had a great atmosphere. I'm glad we came out with a win. And I helped the team win.
DAVID BOOKER I am not looking at this game that way. It's an honor to get selected. I want to go out and win my l...
DAVID BOOKER The record is an accomplishment that I'd never thought I'd have. I thought about it midway through t...
DAVID BOOKER Scoring all of those points doesn't matter. All that mattered to me was winning the game. Our guards...
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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