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Tyson Beckford

"In fashion, there's a lack of strong male images. And there's a huge lack of strong African American images. I noticed over the past thirteen years, Ralph and those guys have used guys that looked similar to me. And I was happy for those guys, but eventually I said, 'Enough is enough, I'm just going to go in and take my job back.'"

Source : "Tyson Beckford on Modeling, Zoolander, and Racism in the Fashion Industry". Interview with Jonathan Evans, www.esquire.com. January 17, 2014.

Tyson Beckford

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“To imagine that God wants prayers and hymns of praise is to make him out to a sort of oriental potentate; while praying for favours is an attempt to get him to change his allegedly all-wise mind.”
“[Bebop is] Chinese music.”
“Education made us what we are.”

Source : 'De l'esprit' (1758) 'Discours 3' ch. 30
“Itâ€™s important that you keep asking God to show you what He wants you to do. If you donâ€™t ask, you wonâ€™t know.”
“It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.”
“Nothing will change until we demolish the "we-they" mentality. We are human, and therefore all human concerns are ours. And those concerns are personal.”
“The clerical work is par for the course. "Keep on file in numerical order" means throw in wastebasket. You'll soon learn the language. "Let it be a challenge to you" means you're stuck with it; "interpersonal relationships" is a fight between kids; "ancillary civic agencies for supportive discipline" means call the cops; "Language Arts Dept." is the English office; "literature based on child's reading level and experiential background" means that's all they've got in the Book Room; "non-academic-minded" is a delinquent; and "It has come to my attention" means you're in trouble.”
“Managing risk is very different from managing strategy. Risk management focuses on the negative-threats and failures rather than opportunities and successes.”

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