Jesse Jackson Quotes
If a black doctor discovers a cure for cancer, ain't no hospital going to lock him out.
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I have a lot of breast cancer history on my mother's side of the family.
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Perhaps one of the most important things you can do for human beings is wean them off an animal-based diet. It hardens the arteries and runs up our health-care costs. The last thing a poor person can afford is a heart attack or cancer or a stroke. And that's all linked to a meat-based diet. I think animal liberation is human liberation.
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One of my personal plights in this business is about playing 'The Sassy Black Girl.'
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This experience has also humbled me by giving me a true understanding of what millions of others face each day in their own fight against cancer.
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Do I feel that white directors have to tell only white stories? No. Do I feel that black filmmakers should only tell stories about black people? No. If we say that, then that means Asian people cannot write about anybody but Asians. I don't think a woman should only write about women.
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I think that it's hard enough being an adolescent and wanting so much to fit in with your peers, your schoolmates, and to erase any sign of difference, to be part of the group. And being biracial but also being black in a predominately white school marked me as different.
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I've been writing about my boyhood, when I was a little kid back on my grandfather's farm where we didn't know about black widow spiders or all that stuff. But writing about that is so easy.
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If your response to the first black president is to say they weren't born in this country... you might be a white supremacist.
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Reducing the price of AIDS drugs gave me so much satisfaction that I've been thinking what else I could do. One day, I thought, 'Let's look at cancer and see how we can spare cancer patients' unnecessary suffering.'
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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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There's a lot of cruelty going on all the time, and I'm not just talking about inter-human cruelty. I'm talking about whole species becoming extinct, asteroids hitting planets, black holes gobbling up stars.
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To go to hospitals and see people fight and overcome cystic fibrosis or cancer or any number of illnesses is to see courage that is humbling. And athletes constantly need to be humbled.
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I think a lot about the private emotions of black people - what we feel and yet is rarely publicly expressed.
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I spent seven months in Africa and came back saying there isn't anything you can say about black people that you couldn't say about, say, pink people except that they're black.
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The pilots I did test for, I was the only black actor testing against white actors for parts that were written white.
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Together we can make a world where cancer no longer means living with fear, without hope, or worse.
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I have a very diverse crowd from old, young, black, white, straight, gay. It's a little bit of everybody.
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Mr. Cosby wanted to do a show not about an upper-middle-class black family, but an upper-middle-class family that happened to be black. Though it sounds like semantics, they're very different approaches.
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I love Monet: his 'Water Lilies' would look great on my wall. But would I prefer to see money helping kids get better from cancer rather than spending it on a work of art for my own personal indulgence? Yes, I probably would.
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I had seen 'Pillowman' in London and loved it. Being part of something that I, as an audience member, would like to be part of was one of the greatest experiences I've ever had.
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I had one scene in 'Invisible' with 12 actors delivering dialog at the same time.
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The divorce rate in 1946 was higher than it ever had been and as high as it ever would be until the '70s. The reason was that prior relationships had not endured the strain of war.
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I don't want to make money; I want to make a difference.
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If a black doctor discovers a cure for cancer, ain't no hospital going to lock him out.
