Frank C. Garland famous quotes

African-American women who develop breast cancer are more likely to die from the disease than White women of the same age. Survival rates are worse among African-Americans for colon, prostate and ovarian cancers as well.
-- Frank C. Garland

#Cancer #White #African American

Many people are deficient in vitamin D. A glass of milk, for example, has only 100 IU. Other foods, such as orange juice, yogurt and cheese, are now beginning to be fortified, but you have to work fairly hard to reach 1,000 IU a day.
-- Frank C. Garland

#Glasses #Orange #People

Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.

The American Cancer Society tried to ruin my research foundation.

Gilbert White discovered the formula for complete happiness, but he died before making the announcement, leaving it for me to do so. It is to be very busy with the unimportant.

I love writing, but hate starting. The page is awfully white and it says, 'You may have fooled some of the people some of the time but those days are over, Giftless. I'm not your agent and I'm not your mommy: I'm a white piece of paper. You wanna dance with me?' and I really, really don't. I'll go peaceable-like.

People look at me, and they go, 'You're white, you're smart, you must have went to college. You must have grown up with money.'

It's a significant question: should black people only adopt black children, and white people white children?

I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.

The Tea Party is protecting its millionaire and oil company friends while gutting critical services that they know protect the livelihood of African-Americans, as well as Latinos and other disadvantaged minorities,

Most African Americans, especially the men and women from my generation, would accept the nationalist gambit that says only European Americans can be racists, which is an interesting gambit.

A good compromise, a good piece of...