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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A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.
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I never really wanted to base success on charts and chart positioning. For me, it's really about the shows and seeing them grow.
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Well, I don't know too many governors who are flaming ideologues.
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My dad and uncles were among the 125,000 proud black American volunteers who, throughout their entire lives, considered their decision to serve during WWII as their greatest honor.
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Most of today's black convicts have come to understand that they are the most abused victims of an unrighteous order.
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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.
