Tom Morello Quotes

The real estate agent had to go door-to-door in the apartment building we wanted to rent, asking if it was OK for this interracial family - my mom is white and I was a 1-year-old half-African kid - to live in the apartment building.
Tom Morello

Family, Mom, Live

The way corporate media likes to portray America is as a homogenous whole that high-five's each other at the Super Bowl. But what we have is a grotesque disparity between the rich and poor that is only getting wider.
Tom Morello

America, Rich, Poor

I came late to the genre of folk music.
Tom Morello

Music, Late, Folk

I didn't grow up with my Kenyan family. I grew up in a small, conservative suburb of Chicago.
Tom Morello

Family, Small, Grow

I literally integrated the small town of Libertyville, Illinois. I was the first person of color to reside within its borders.
Tom Morello

Person, Small, Color

I was a fan of heavy music - first metal, then punk, then hip hop.
Tom Morello

Music, Punk, Metal

Music, I think, is best when it honestly explores personal demons, and it stirs around in the silt of the psyche to find out what's really there.
Tom Morello

Music, Best, Find

My parents met in Kenya. My father is African, is Kenyan. The Kenyan side of my family was involved in the anti-colonial movement.
Tom Morello

Family, Father, Parents

Then about 12 years ago it dawned on me that folk music - the music of Woody Guthrie and Phil Ochs, early Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Pete Seeger - could be as heavy as anything that comes through a Marshall stack. The combination of three chords and the right lyrical couplet can be as heavy as anything in the Metallica catalogue.
Tom Morello

Music, Through, Three

We've been able to have our cake and eat it, too. Every song, every T-shirt, is absolutely a pure expression of what we want to do. And it connects.
Tom Morello

Able, Song, Cake

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Nationality: American

Born: May 30, 1964

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