Paul Mooney (Paul Gladney) Quotes

America is racial. America was founded on race. Race is America. The code name for America is 'race.'

Paul Mooney

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• Social revolutions are never simple.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Simple
  • Never
  • Revolutions

• 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.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • People
  • American
  • Change

• Be true to yourself and go with your instincts - don't be somebody you're not just to fit in.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • True
  • Yourself
  • Be True

• I compose music for films, and by the grace of God, I've got a few awards. That's it.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • God
  • Grace

• 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.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• 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.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • People
  • Live
  • Real

• 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.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • Lost
  • Moments

• 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.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Song
  • Fascinated
  • Wrote

• Usually I decide on what it is I'm writing next by the books I'm reading.

  

  Kate Mosse
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Next

• I was never a practicing Muslim. But I do consider myself a Muslim.

  

  Iman
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Muslim

• The American dream is still to own your home.

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • Home
  • American
  • Dream

• I do expect a lot from myself, but it's also a balance of being... positive and also pushing yourself.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Myself
  • Positive
  • Balance

• Maybe there's something about the outsiderness of being Jewish that makes for a fiery feminist type.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Something
  • Feminist
  • Jewish

• I think jazz is good, but I don't enjoy it. It's not for me.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Good
  • Think
  • Enjoy

• I drive a big Dodge truck. I drive American cars.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • American
  • Truck
  • Drive

• 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.

  

  Walter Murch
  • Time
  • Music
  • Art

• '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.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Good
  • Game
  • Always

• I've always been acutely aware of differences and the way you are supposed to act if you want to be popular.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Want
  • Popular
  • Differences

• If you envy successful people, you create a negative force field of attraction that repels you from ever doing the things that you need to do to be successful. If you admire successful people, you create a positive force field of attraction that draws you toward becoming more and more like the kinds of people that you want to be like.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Success
  • Positive

• He is fond of being misunderstood. It gives him a post of vantage.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Gives
  • Post
  • Fond

• Deep in the wild mountains, is a strange marketplace,where you can trade the hassle and noise of everyday life, for eternal Light.

  

  Milarepa
  • Light
  • Mountain
  • Strange

• I was an athlete, so I hung out with the jocks. I was smart, so I hung out with the nerdy kids. I was also into theater, so I hung out with the misfits... So I was always in different groups, and those groups never quite overlapped. The racial part of it was just another one of those groups, in one sense.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Different
  • Kids
  • Smart

• There is simply no room for racial, hurtful language spoken to your colleagues or anyone else.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Language
  • Colleagues
  • Racial

• America is racial. America was founded on race. Race is America. The code name for America is 'race.'

  

  Paul Mooney
  • Race
  • Code
  • Racial