Kenya Barris Quotes
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Racism is a physical experience.
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Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
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Every day it seems more likely that we are destined - or should one say doomed? - to replay the disastrous economic history of the 1930s.
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Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism.
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We must erase bin Laden's ugly legacy, not extend it: by ending the Patriot Act's erosion of our civil liberties, we can protect the freedoms that make America worth fighting for.
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I steer clear of books with ugly covers. And ones that are touted as 'sweeping,' 'tender' or 'universal.'
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Simple peck-order bullying is only the beginning of the kind of hierarchical behavior that can lead to racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, classism, and all the other 'isms' that cause so much suffering in the world.
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Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don't know why. It's ugly, everywhere.
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I sometimes feel that racism is getting worse.
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Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans.
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I wanted to have a body of work behind me before I wrote about racism.
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An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful.
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We must confront our own racism. Discriminatory housing and employment policies are nothing more than institutionalised racism.
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My generation of Americans was the first to really care about racism and sexism, not to mention the I Ching, plus, of course, the Earth.
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I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.
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Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
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I made a point when I made the Ugly Casanova record to not write a song and then say, 'This is a Modest Mouse song' or 'This is an Ugly Casanova song.' The people who were open to it not being a Modest Mouse record liked it.
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We have this long history of racism in this country, and as it happens, the criminal justice system has been perhaps the most prominent instrument for administering racism. But the racism doesn't actually come from the criminal justice system.
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My mom's whole side of the family, they're all Packers fans. My mom's a Bears fan. My stepdad is a Vikings guy. So that gets ugly. My mom sits upstairs watching the Bears game; he sits in the basement. They can't watch it together. Football's a violent anger in our family dynamic.
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There is no such thing as an ugly girl.
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I'm used to people being a mile away. That suits me. It's more nerve-wracking playing in front of people who are two feet away from me.
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They got together and said they were going to do it for her. She was our inspiration, that's for sure.
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As much as we want to say racism is dead, it's still rearing its ugly head constantly.
