Anthony Ray Hinton Quotes
When you're poor and black in America, you stand a greater chance of going to prison for something you didn't do.
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I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got the job there through doing stand-up on Fallon.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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You come to work and you laugh all day, you go home and you feel light and there's a certain feeling when you're sitting with the audience and they leave after 90 minutes and it's just pure escapism and they're happy.
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I think I'm a songwriter. I grab an instrument to make my body a song, but I'm not a player as such, maybe a little more on guitar, but certainly not piano.
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There are definitely - there is definitely an element of Donald Trump's support that has its basis in racism or xenophobia. But a lot of these folks are just really hardworking people who are struggling in really important ways.
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When you go all over the world for work, your dream vacation is your bedroom.
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I do have the personnel that we use in the back of my head when I'm working, but I also don't want to limit myself.
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I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.
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We never did these kinds of loans that really started this mess, the subprime loans. We just never got into that business. We were enticed a lot of times to do so by a lot of Wall Street-type players, but I, frankly, never understood some of this stuff.
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Like any group that has endured much, African Americans have created a strong and mutually reinforcing sense of group identity. That's not a bad thing in and of itself.
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Well yes so far, I was recently in Germany and they had me do six book signings a day and that was too much so I had them cut it down to about three. It becomes taxing at times but its a lot of fun and you meet a lot of nice people.
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When you get to 15 and most of your teachers are priests, there's bound to be a conflict.
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One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.
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I've read that the ancient Chinese art of feng shui can bring a sense of peace, well-being, and positive energy to a home - same as beer.
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.
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Obama's ascendancy unhinged the radical right, offering a unified target to competing camps of racial, nativist and religious animus.
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Kids definitely go into bookstores after reading 'Twilight' and want something else like it.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
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The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
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I never really got into game shows. The easiest one is 'Wheel Of Fortune' because you just have to know words, and for the most part everyone knows words.
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At the time when I was in college, Oscar Grant had just lost his life in Oakland, Calif. He was an unarmed young black male who had a record. And at the time when his death was making headlines, more people were talking about what he had done in his past than the fact that he unjustly lost his life.
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I'm the black dude that loves old black culture. I also love old white culture. I just love history, but I'm the guy that wants to bring things back and push them forward.
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When you're poor and black in America, you stand a greater chance of going to prison for something you didn't do.
