Malcolm-Jamal Warner Quotes
African-Americans are not a monolithic group. So, we tend to talk about the black community, the black culture, the African-American television viewing audience, but there are just as many facets of us as there are other cultures.
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I had no intention of becoming a performer, and yet under miraculous circumstances I was brought into the music industry fold. If divine powers hadn't intervened, I'd still be living in China working in some area of Sino-American comparative law.
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There's a whole lot more to the African-American community than entertainment and sports.
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When I was younger, I always liked acting. You know, like, acting locally, or community theater at school. But it's not an especially insured career choice, so I was like, 'It's a hobby. Whatever.'
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Segregation, in a sense, helped create and maintain black solidarity.
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Your evolutionary heuristics come back to the idea of a future roughly similar to what it is now. You give to the community as it is now, to benefit a similar community in the future.
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To be black in the Baltimore of my youth was to be naked before the elements of the world.
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The gift I have to give to my fellow countrymen and people around the world, the facts are the Muslim community are our gift. They are the fabric of what makes America great.
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All these police treating our people wrong, man. Black lives matter, but we got fans of all different colors, so all lives matter.
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The government of Iran has no problem with the American nation.
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I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
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I taught a master class in film in France, and that was a great experience because I got a chance to study the French film culture and the French film history, so to add... just to expand myself just personally and professionally was really helpful.
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I love the concept of community energy.
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People can defame anyone they like, people can write anything they like. But non-accountability is a part of modern Indian culture.
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What sort of Europe do we want to have? Parallel societies? Muslim communities living together with the Christian community?
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The American War of Independence is the expulsion of the intrusive elements, alien to the American essence. If American reality is the reinvention of itself, whatever is found in any way irreducible or unassimilable is not American.
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I did community theater in Georgia and called myself a ballet dancer.
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One of my favorite - well, my favorite, favorite, absolute favorite event to go to is Alfre Woodard has a party that I call the blacktress party. It's, like, black actresses that either have been nominated for an Oscar or should have been, and it sort of is just a night where we all get in a room and we get to celebrate each other.
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Latinos been a part of hip-hop culture and every other culture; we've been influential in every aspect of life.
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I've heard people say in the U.N. community among mediators they don't like women as mediators because they're too quick to compromise.
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I'm about looking at each of those perceived menacing black men that you see in the streets all over the place, people that you oftentimes will walk past without assuming that they have the same humanity, fears that we all do.
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I want to appeal to everyone. Because I'm not saying I'm the best, but we the best.
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I'm big on story structure. I studied with John Truby, who mapped out story by means of moral wants and needs, and that's what I do. Hey, so does John Irving.
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African-Americans are not a monolithic group. So, we tend to talk about the black community, the black culture, the African-American television viewing audience, but there are just as many facets of us as there are other cultures.
