Anthony Ray Hinton Quotes
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There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their childhood, so they think that if you don't toe the line on abstract doctrine you can't be part of the Church.
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I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris.
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Black-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word means.
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I take it seriously that it's a privilege and honor to be a role model to young girls, both black and white. It's not something I take lightly.
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We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.
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I think family is our reason for being. I was lucky to be born into a very close-knit family.
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Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.
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I wrote a script with my brother which ended up, somehow, on the Black List in 2008.
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Granny beads are what they're called when a grandma works the garden all day - you always see them - they have a handkerchief around their neck with a lot of dust on them, and then the sweat will go down and make these black beads of sweat and dirt around their neck. And that's what they call granny beads.
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But it is a black man's game, and it will be forever.
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In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.
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If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
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I feel like trouble has followed me from the day I was born.
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We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.
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The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.
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When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because they had nowhere else to go.
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The simplest fix for better grilling is to line the inside of your barbecue with tin foil. It dramatically affects how evenly the heat is distributed. That crusty black hibachi or Weber grill is doing your food no favors.
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I love black truffles. I love white truffles.
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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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Most people are not good people. In business, in art, in almost every 'world' I've been in, most people I've meet are pretty gray to black. It takes practice to be the person who is a source of compassion and honesty.
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A sad person who is so involved with his sadness that he mistakes it for reality will have a hard time seeing himself as anything but sad. For him, the sadness is not a feeling that he experiences - it is him.
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Obama said that his performance at bowling was so bad 'it was like the Special Olympics or something.' Disability, by Obama's definition, was about difference and failure.
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My nickname was Skinabo - 'skin and bones.'
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My only crime was being born black - or being born black in Alabama.
