"The government did a lot of things to us in terms of sending pictures to my house. If I had to go to a school to give a speech and the sorority wanted to sign a song, they would send [a person] to my house and tell my wife that I had sex with this woman or that woman.It got to the point where my wife didn't know what to believe anymore, and the fact that I didn't have a job, I couldn't support my bills, the fact that I was getting ready to go through maybe a mental setback in terms of depression, we just had a tremendous amount of things on us."

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Source : Source: www.pbs.org

John Carlos

#Song Quotes #Jobs Quotes #Sex Quotes

“I started as a print reporter.”
“You can't live a healthy life on a sick planet.”

Source : "How Seventh Generation Made Sustainable Cleaning Products Mainstream". Interview with Meghan French Dunbar, consciouscompanymedia.com. July 4, 2015.
“I don't think we need to extend unemployment any further without paying for it, and without making some modifications such as turning it into a loan at some point. It then encourages people to go back to work.”
“The principle of literature is devotion to the particulars of life.”

Source : Carol Bly (1988). “Letters from the Country”, HarperCollins
“The idea of losing the three at Hayward Field and the idea of losing my specialty to someone who wasn't running his specialty. Mostly, the idea of losing in front of my people. They haven't forgotten about me.”
“'Hunger' definitely changed my life, in terms of being recognized by filmmakers, since that was very much a filmmakers' film.”
“I've been coming back like a rubber ball for years.”
“I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things.”

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