"When you see a black guy on TV, he's always a thug or always portrayed as someone that's in trouble. It spreads the message to everyone else that that's who we are. People often don't try to understand black men as a whole. We're creative, strong and influential."

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Source : "Meet Being Mary Jane's 'Cutty Buddy,' Thomas Q. Jones". Interview with Demetria Lucas D'Oyley, www.theroot.com. February 24, 2015.

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“The world obviously needs to change ... if we can't protect our innocent women and children, then we have a serious problem.”
“Humor is... despair refusing to take itself seriously.”
“I keep my ear to the streets - that's how I know music. I live, breathe, eat, and sleep music. That's it. Nothing else.”

Source : Source: brightestyoungthings.com
“The visual quality of the cameras now is such that you can shoot with available light, and if people are willing to mount a microphone on the camera and maybe even on the subject, then you're good to go.”
“Whenever we play the Twins, Torii Hunter has a major impact on defense. He tells the left fielder and the right fielder to take the day off and he covers the whole outfield.”
“If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction.”

Source : Talcott Parsons (1968). “The structure of social action: a study in social theory with special reference to a group of recent European writers”
“In Judith Barrington's striking collection, Horses and the Human Soul, human emotions come ushered and accompanied by animal companions, especially the horses this speaker loves. Here they are witnesses, companions to the spirit, and as vulnerably mortal as human beings. Socially and politically alert, lamenting and celebrating, Barrington's passionate poems inscribe the broad range of her affections.”
“I work hard, and I tend to play hard. I very seldom rest hard.”

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