Beverly Daniel Tatum Quotes

The social pressure from friend and acquaintance to collude, to not notice racism, can be quite powerful.

Beverly Daniel Tatum

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• I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Money
  • Help
  • Mother

• I was rapping in 1939. It's old. The roots are complex. And kids don't know.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Kids
  • Know
  • Old

• I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Men
  • Kind
  • More

• Stages are getting higher and higher, and I'm getting older and older.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Getting
  • Getting Older

• We suffered a terrible blow on 11 September 2001. We responded with fear and anger. A fight-or-flight response is adaptive in any species. For us, given our power, fight was the only response we could imagine.

  

  Yochai Benkler
  • Power
  • Fear
  • Blow

• While actors are great and awesome, writers literally create new worlds from scratch. What is sexier than that? Personally, I don't know why every last person out there isn't dating a writer.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Great
  • Why
  • Awesome

• The self-made man that some people believe is a myth? It could be, because you do it on the backs of other people.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • People
  • Believe
  • Man

• 'Esquire Magazine' just gave me 'Father of the Year'. I'll put it right up there with my gold medal. I survived; that's why they gave it to me.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Father
  • Gold
  • Right

• I do worry about young people in the business who have experienced a lot of success and are punted around doing those manic publicity trails, when you don't really know who you are yet.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • People
  • Business
  • Success

• I'm a kid who grew up working hard.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Up
  • Working
  • Kid

• A crowd of ordinary decent folk Watched from without and neither moved nor spoke As three pale figures were led forth and bound To three posts driven upright in the ground.

  

  W. H. Auden

• Of course, I'd also suggest that whoever was the genius who thought it was a good idea to read things ONE F*CKING BYTE AT A TIME with system calls for each byte should be retroactively aborted. Who the f*ck does idiotic things like that? How did they not die as babies, considering that they were likely too stupid to find a tit to suck on?

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Time
  • Good
  • Die

• I love my country, but maybe that's because I'm white and rich. I'm not technically rich, but I do have a lot of shit, that I refuse to share with others.

  

  Maria Bamford
  • Country

• I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir.

  

  David Bowie
  • Water
  • Star

• Reagan never cottoned to dictators. He was pure in this notion in a true belief that democracy was the best solution in the world because it spoke to people's hopes and dreams and aspirations, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of speech.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • People
  • World
  • True

• Everyone's parents were famous actors at my school, pretty much! I think I went to school with Paris Hilton when I was three. That's what L.A. is, though - it's an industry town. You go to school with kids and you think, 'Well that's normal, they make movies.'

  

  Alice Eve
  • School
  • Kids
  • Pretty

• I used to watch 'Doctor Who' as a child with William Hartnell and Pat Troughton in the black-and-white days, so being cast is brilliant.

  

  Bradley Walsh
  • Black

• For years, Ono's work - musical and otherwise - was, in large part, dismissed and derided; at best, it was often misunderstood.

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • Work

• Can't trust a fascist-truth is always your first sacrifice to the welfare of the state

  

  Matthew Stover
  • Truth
  • Trust
  • Sacrifice

• We accept that sometimes in difficult circumstances, difficult things happen.

  

  Tony Abbott
  • Difficult
  • Circumstances
  • Accept

• It's sad that because I have one friend who is in the public eye, just being seen out together once means we're romantically involved. But I don't take it seriously, and it doesn't really affect me much.

  

  Dylan Penn
  • Together
  • Friend
  • Sad

• I went to school with Steven Wright, who was the shyest guy I knew, and one day someone suddenly told me that he was in a club doing standup comedy. I went down to his club and he was great. Another friend of mine, who was pretty much a thief by trade, was hosting the show. So I thought, 'If these guys can do it, then so can I.'

  

  Denis Leary
  • Great
  • School
  • Guy

• The social pressure from friend and acquaintance to collude, to not notice racism, can be quite powerful.

  

  Beverly Daniel Tatum
  • Friend
  • Racism
  • Social Pressure