Aaron McGruder Quotes

When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.

Aaron McGruder

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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.

Zoe Saldana
- Time
- Women
- History
I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.

Larry Hovis
- Time
- Kind
- Never
For decades, scholars have studied the ways in which implicit biases affect how we perceive other people in this multiethnic society of ours. The data consistently shows that about 90 percent of us possess some implicit prejudices - and, unsurprisingly, people typically favor their own group.

J. D. Vance
- People
- Society
- Data
I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
- Time
- May
- Winning
I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.

Rabih Alameddine
- Writing
- Mystery
- Half
Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.

Jack Schwartz
- Truth
- Enough
- Belief