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‘DON’T JUDGE
ME, BECAUSE
I AM HUMAN ...
I JUST HAPPEN
TO RUN A LITTLE
FASTER.’
SHA’CARRI RICHARDSON,
American sprinter, speaking to
the Todayshow on July 2 about
her suspension from the U.S.
Olympic team after testing
positive for THC
‘Today, we
are able to
breathe again.’
PHILONISE FLOYD,
brother of George Floyd, after former Minneapolis police
offi cer Derek Chauvin was found guilty of murder on April 20
‘Rude and
racist are not
the same.’
MEGHAN MARKLE,
on the difference between the
way the British media covers
white members of the royal
family and the coverage she
received prior to leaving the
U.K., to Oprah Winfrey in an
interview that aired on March 7
‘THIS WILL
OPEN DOORS
FOR MANY OTHER
QUEER PEOPLE
TO SIMPLY EXIST.’
LIL NAS X,
inaMarch 26 openlettertohisyoung
self,promotingthereleaseofhissing
“Montero (Call Me by Your Name)”
‘DIVORCE,
BABE. DIVORCE.’
ADELE,
in an Oct. 9 Instagram Live, on what inspired her album 30
‘THE WORD VICTIM IS A
LOADED, LOADED WORD.’
JUDGE BRUCE SCHROEDER,
ruling Oct. 25 that attorneys could refer at Kyle Rittenhouse’s
murder trial to people he shot as “looters” and “arsonists” but
not “victims”; the teen was found not guilty on Nov. 19 after
fatally shooting two protesters in Kenosha, Wis., last year
‘A code red
for humanity.’
ANTÓNIO GUTERRES,
U.N. Secretary-General, in an Aug. 9
statement after the release of an
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change report, which found the
opportunity to limit the impact of
climate change is rapidly narrowing
‘FELLAS, I NEED 11,000 VOTES.
GIVE ME A BREAK.’
DONALD TRUMP,
in a Jan. 2 phone call with Georgia secretary of state Brad
Raffensperger, during which he repeatedly pressured Raffensperger
to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s win in the state
‘We are
witnessing ...
an outright
crime against
humanity.’
ARUNDHATI ROY,
author, writing in the
Guardianon April 28
about the Modi
government’s failure
to handle India’s brutal
second wave of COVID-19
‘Losing her has
put a new lens
on my eyes on
the amount of
hate that exists
in our world.’
RANDY PARK,
son of Hyun Jung Grant,
51, a Korean American
woman who was among the
eight killed in the March 16
Atlanta spa shootings, in an
interview three days later
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‘IT’S O.K.
NOT TO
BE O.K.’
NAOMI OSAKA,
tennis player, in a July 8
essay for TIME about her
mental health