Paul Mooney (Paul Gladney) Quotes
America is racial. America was founded on race. Race is America. The code name for America is 'race.'
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Social revolutions are never simple.
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In order to change the conversation about Muslims in American media, we need a diverse, unified movement of people who are willing to take a stand against anti-Muslim bias.
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Be true to yourself and go with your instincts - don't be somebody you're not just to fit in.
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I compose music for films, and by the grace of God, I've got a few awards. That's it.
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I am an optimist. I believe the future is bright. I think people who see life painted in dark colors are the ones who do not take ownership.
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I think TV has been a little bit irresponsible in how they portray these people because homicide detectives are not brooding, tortured souls who are stained with the stink of the city and who have blood on their hands. They are real, live people that are incredibly entertaining.
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For many people who are so lost in their minds, so much involved in their thought processes, the only moments they have when they are not trapped in that is when they are relating to their animal, their pet.
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For me, I've always wanted to be a nun. I mean, I think about what it's like to be a nun. And I've always been fascinated with nuns, and I have a nun collection, I've been collecting nuns for 20 years. And I have a song that I wrote, 'I Wanna Be a Nun,' when I was 25.
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I was never a practicing Muslim. But I do consider myself a Muslim.
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The American dream is still to own your home.
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I do expect a lot from myself, but it's also a balance of being... positive and also pushing yourself.
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Maybe there's something about the outsiderness of being Jewish that makes for a fiery feminist type.
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I think jazz is good, but I don't enjoy it. It's not for me.
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I drive a big Dodge truck. I drive American cars.
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Film is really the one art form that can effectively use silence. Music and theater can play with silence, but they can't sustain silence without losing energy, whereas film can go into a silent mode and stay there for minutes at a time.
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'Taxicab Confessions' always cracks me up. And if you are in the mood for a good game show, I like 'Survivor' because it's well made.
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I've always been acutely aware of differences and the way you are supposed to act if you want to be popular.
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The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.
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We need not worry so much about what man descends from - it's what he descends to that shames the human race.
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Racial prejudice boils down to the deeply anti-American message that some people are born to fail.
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People feel uncomfortable talking about racial issues out of fear that if they express things they will be characterized in a way that's not fair. I think that there is still a need for a dialogue about things racial that we have not engaged in.
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I think others may look at the uniqueness of my candidacy, the fact that I'm an African-American, conservative tea party Republican, and somehow race injects itself into the conversation.
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You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions.
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America is racial. America was founded on race. Race is America. The code name for America is 'race.'
