"There is a man who exists as one of the most popular objects of leadership, legislation, and quasi-literature in the history of all men. . . . This man, that object of attention, attack, and vast activity, cannot make himself be heard, let alone understood. He has never been listened to. . . . That man is Black and alive in white America where the media of communication do not allow the delivery of his own voice, his own desires, his own rage."

-- June Jordan

#Communication Quotes #Men Quotes #Media Quotes

“I had to study acting to basically educate myself.”
“Every time somebody makes an Indian movie...Cher on a horse with a headdress and a miniskirt...the fashion industry cashes in.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.”

Source : Samuel Richardson, Clarissa (fict. name.) (1820). “Clarissa; or, The history of a young lady”, p.114
“[In the case of research director, Willis R. Whitney, whose style was to give talented investigators as much freedom as possible, you may define "serendipity" as] the art of profiting from unexpected occurrences. When you do things in that way you get unexpected results. Then you do something else and you get unexpected results in another line, and you do that on a third line and then all of a sudden you see that one of these lines has something to do with the other. Then you make a discovery that you never could have made by going on a direct road.”
“It is said that we only get to know God in those stark moments when we are driven to depend on him.”
“All characters have a voice but not all voices have character. And it's all about character and personality.”
“America - it is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time.”

Source : Thomas Wolfe (1999). “Of Time and the River: A Legend of Man's Hunger in His Youth”, p.176, Simon and Schuster
“I expect to make big plays. And when I don't, I'm upset about it.”

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