"I can tell you from personal experience it gets a little tiring having to make the rounds on cable shows to explain 'what's up with black folks.'"

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Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

John Ridley

#Black Quotes #Littles Quotes #Tire Quotes

“I want to see young people who as committed to the cause of Jesus Christ as their young people are to the cause of Islam. I want to see them as radically laying down their lives for the Gospel as they are over in Pakistan and Israel and Palestine and all those different places, you know, because we have... excuse me, but we have the truth!”
“I feel like there are moments where musicians may be more interested - or culture in general - to show roots and where one comes from. And later there comes a time where that has lesser importance for artists, and instead they become more interested in affiliating themselves with global or international trends. Fortunately, we were in the right place at the right time, and that allowed us to experiment, play and enjoy.”
“Each of us has a universal within us. There's always that making of parts - but it doesn't touch the universal within you.”
“I am now pretty far advanced in life, and all my views are center'd in the Happiness and well-fare of my children; you will therefore find from me every Indulgence which you have a right to expect from an affectionate Parent.”
“I think the amazing thing about Twin Peaks was that it completely changed television from that point forward.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Books are like truth serum-- if you don't read, you can't figure out what's real.”

Source : Rodman Philbrick (2015). “Freak the Mighty”, p.16, Usborne Publishing Ltd
“The economic and social theories used by those who take part in the social struggle ought to be judged not by their objective value but primarily for their effectiveness in arousing emotions. The scientific refutation of them which can be made is useless, however correct it may be objectively.”

Source : Vilfredo Pareto (1971). “Manual of political economy”, Augustus m Kelley Pubs
“Things were very different back in 1992. There was unrest in the Middle East, we had a gridlocked Congress, and everybody was talking about Bill Cosby.”

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