Alvin Francis Poussaint Quotes
Black people are brown, light yellow and all different colors in the United States. White men created all the vast array of complexions and skin tones in black Americans by copulating with black women.
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Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
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Not only did I get an A in music but I got an A in ladies.
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I am not an angry guy. It's just the roles I do that impact my personality.
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It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
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I have 10 children. I've got my eighth grandchild in the oven with Kimberly. I have all these wonderful kids.
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Looking back, it puzzles me that my parents decided to stay in Shanghai when they must have known that war was imminent. But the cotton works were my father's responsibility, and duty then counted for something.
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It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.
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That's why teenagers fascinate me – they're like children with drivers' licenses. Like children in that their impulses are so direct.
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There's something extraordinary about selling millions and millions of albums.
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There is no conclusive proof of Unidentified Flying Objects flying over India-China border.
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For those of us who spent our careers competing with David Broder, the hardest thing to abide was the inevitable comparison. If someone said Jack Germond - or Jules Witcover or Walter Mears or whoever - 'is a pretty good political reporter,' the default response would be, 'but he's no David Broder.'
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I'm not somebody who is going to build something for a few years, sell it, and then go off and just have fun.
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I live in Soho in lower New York; there's tons and tons of tourists right outside my door step, obviously. Most of them are European, and all of them have guidebooks. I never see anyone looking at a phone.
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Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.
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I think that, in the end, the military behavior and intelligence services are not very different from each other. It's an attitude of hunters; they're observing the prey.
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Whoever lives in Berlin note, and doesn't die of Liberalism, will never die of vexation!
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Capri on the Amalfi Coast in Italy is my ultimate holiday destination.
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Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices.
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To pray only when in peril is to use safety belts only in heavy traffic.
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I could go and make commercials left and right and pretend like I am a celebrity, but that is not me.
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Before the whole Disney realm had undergone this huge revamping, as a kid, I always saw myself doing these dramatic indie parts. And then I fell in love with doing comedy and doing kid shows and really working for kids.
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Don't mess with me! I'm a black-belt!
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Black people are brown, light yellow and all different colors in the United States. White men created all the vast array of complexions and skin tones in black Americans by copulating with black women.
