"This is what happens with a breakthrough.Â The first ones through the door often get bruised if not broken.Â Eventually, with a little political acumen and racial sensitivity and a lot of hard work, a smooth new place can emerge."

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Source : Gwen Ifill (2009). “The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama”, p.17, Anchor

Gwen Ifill

#Hard Work Quotes #Doors Quotes #Broken Quotes

“When I look at the arc of my career, my focus is on lyricism, right? I own that.”
“Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.”
“Big L scared me to death. When I heard that on tape, I was scared to death. I was like there's no way I can compete if this is what I gotta compete with.”
“What shop did this book come from? she asked. Her father was looking worried at the cooker. He always got rice wrong. I don't know, Brooksie, he said, I don't remember. That was unimaginable, not remembering where a book has come from! and where it was bought from! That was part of the whole history, the whole point, of any book that you owned! And when you picked it up later in the house at home, you knew, you just knew by looking and having it in your hand, where it came from and where you got it and when and why you'd decided to buy it.”
“Every people should be the originators of their own destiny, the projectors of their own schemes, and creators of the events that lead to their destiny -- the consummation of their own desires.”
“Transparency is not the same as looking straight through a building: it's not just a physical idea, it's also an intellectual one.”
“Much to my chagrin, I think that cinema has gone the wrong way in America because in many ways, I pioneered the use of video which eventually became digital video. Everyone can do it; it's Pop Art time: "Everything is art, why should you take it so seriously, after all it's kind of like a clambake." I don't buy that.”
“You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences.”

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