Joe Morton Quotes
I want to put something on the screen that audiences have never seen black actors do before, roles that will widen views of who African-Americans are.
Joe Morton
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When I went to drama school, I knew I was at least as talented as other students, but because I was a black man and I wasn't pretty, I knew I would have to work my butt off to be the best that I would be, and to be noticed.
Lance Reddick
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We believe it is comprehensive international sanctions against the white regime that will save us from the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of South Africans, black and white.
Oliver Tambo
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Every time a young girl comes in and asks me for advice, if you start your conversation with, 'How hard is it as a black woman,' or, 'How hard is it as a woman,' I turn you around. Because I cannot - we cannot look at the roadblocks and see the road at the same time.
Tamron Hall
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Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.
Samuel L. Jackson
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At fashion shows, my brows often get bleached, and they've been dyed back much darker - like jet black, where you can't even see my skin. Sometimes with Just for Men! What a mistake. At times, the two brows aren't even the same color!
Cara Delevingne
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It's an ongoing joke that a black man is always the first one to get killed in movies.
J. B. Smoove
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I dug the idea that I was being perceived as the black sheep of my family, but for me, it was like, I was a rebel, and that to me was most important.
Larry Bishop
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Even during my youth, I can recall very few black people living on any kind of public assistance. People were working, doing some kind of job that was useful to the community.
Ed Smith
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Laughter drives shouting away.
Indra Devi
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I think a lot about the private emotions of black people - what we feel and yet is rarely publicly expressed.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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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.
Larry Rivers
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My father was a dark-skinned brother, but my mother was a very fair-skinned lady. From what I understand, she was Creole; we think her people originally came from New Orleans. She looked almost like a white woman, which meant she could pass - as folks used to say back then. Her hair was jet-black. She was slim and very attractive.
Ice T
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A husband is what's left of a sweetheart after the nerve has been killed.
Lou Costello
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It's a real luxury to have a studio all to myself, somewhere to start mood boards for the next collection.
Alice Temperley
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Capricorns like to stay in one place. I have to go to work in places like New York, but basically, I don't want to go anywhere. One time, I got a trip around the world for doing something on television, and the travel agent was so excited, I gave her the tickets.
Charles Nelson Reilly
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When we are self-conscious, we cannot be wholly aware; we must throw ourselves out first. This throwing ourselves away is the act of creativity. So, when we wholly concentrate, like a child in play, or an artist at work, then we share in the act of creating. We not only escape time, we escape our self-conscious selves.
Madeleine L'Engle
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I work really hard not to have a kitsch tone to any of my work, particularly radio stuff, which sometimes goes in that direction on certain programs.
Meghan Daum
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I want to put something on the screen that audiences have never seen black actors do before, roles that will widen views of who African-Americans are.
Joe Morton
