Evelyn Boyd Granville Quotes

We accepted education as the means to rise above the limitations that a prejudiced society endeavored to place upon us.

Evelyn Boyd Granville

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• Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • Life
  • Black
  • Culture

• Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessarily compete with the biggest best-sellers, just as cable siphons audience from the major networks, and just as the Web pulls viewers from TV.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Long
  • Attention
  • Human

• Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Up
  • Violence
  • Enemy

• The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Think
  • Personality
  • I Think

• People think that I can just walk into a room and get a job, but of the 200 interviews and auditions I go through a year, I may get three yeses. I just have to use my sense of humour to get me through.

  

  Oona Chaplin
  • People
  • May
  • Job

• When parents tell their children not to congregate on corners, especially in groups, out of fear for them encountering the police, what does that say? We have a trust problem.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Fear

• I've loved every minute I've spent in television. And I've had much more failure, as traditionally measured, than success in television. I've done four shows, and only one of them was the 'West Wing.'

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Done
  • Success
  • Failure

• I saw the S.B.A. with just enormous potential, and that's what I told the president - this is really a jewel.

  

  Karen Mills
  • President
  • Potential
  • saw

• Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Want
  • Clothes
  • Minds

• I always looked up there, because I remember a time when the only things on the walls in Fenway were the Jimmy Fund sign and the retired numbers. Never in a million years did you think you'd ever be up there with those guys.

  

  Carlton Fisk
  • Up
  • Time
  • Remember

• Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Society
  • Negative
  • Even

• The British were white, English, and Protestant, just as we were. They had to have some other basis on which to justify independence, and happily they were able to formulate the inalienable truths set forth in the Declaration.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • English
  • White
  • Independence

• When I was starting out, I saw it as something that was definitely going to end. Every time I came to New York for fashion week or to interview someone, I was so sad going back home because I thought, 'These things don't get to last.' That's sort of the narrative of young success.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Time
  • Home
  • Success

• America is about choices, including those to live certain lifestyles.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Live
  • America
  • Choices

• We are a fact-gathering organization only. We don't clear anybody. We don't condemn anybody.

  

  J. Edgar Hoover
  • Organization
  • Clear
  • Only

• What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?

  

  O. Henry
  • World
  • Together
  • Moving

• They aren't interested in the fact that whenever they kick up dirt, the dirt rubs off on every one of us.

  

  Irene Dunne
  • Up

• I didn't become one.. .As long as I can remember I've always been one.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Long
  • Remember

• The state exists for man, not man for the state. The same may be said of science. These are old phrases, coined by people who saw in human individuality the highest human value. I would hesitate to repeat them, were it not for the ever recurring danger that they may be forgotten, especially in these days of organization and stereotypes.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Man
  • Science
  • Value

• I've always wanted to work with Barbra Streisand because she's worked with some of the best background singers in the world who are friends of mine, worked with them in concert or on movie soundtracks, and I always say 'Now, where was I? Where was I when she was hiring people to work with her?'

  

  Darlene Love
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are; this is where we came from; and this is where we're going. And a lot of Western society over the last hundred years - the last 50 years really - has lost that. We have become rather aimless and wandering.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Society
  • Lost
  • Horizon

• When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Learned

• I wrote 'The Room', 'The Birthday Party', and 'The Dumb Waiter' in 1957, I was acting all the time in a repertory company, doing all kinds of jobs, traveling to Bournemouth and Torquay and Birmingham.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Time
  • Party
  • Dumb

• We accepted education as the means to rise above the limitations that a prejudiced society endeavored to place upon us.

  

  Evelyn Boyd Granville
  • Society
  • Education
  • Limitations