"Being black only helps them. Many times they get sponsors because they are black. And they have had a lot of advantages because they can always say, 'It's racism.' They can always come back and say, 'Because we are this color, things happen.'"

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Source : "Women's Tennis & the Williams Sisters: A Love Match?". "CNN Talkback Live", www.cnn.com. August 29, 2001.

Martina Hingis

#Color Quotes #Racism Quotes #Black Quotes

“The individual leads in order that those who are led can develop their potential as human beings and thereby prosper.”
“I enjoy doing very high mileages, partly out of masochism and also because I like to feel the shape of the landscape.”
“I see myself as the oldest griot tradition of speaking to truth out here. There's a dark side that people don't even know is there.”
“The instrument of expansion of Classical civilization was a social organization, slavery.”
“I think maybe God was trying to tell me that gentleness begins with strength, quietness with security. A great tree is both moved and unmoved, for it changes with the seasons, but its roots keep it anchored in the ground. Mastering a gentle and quiet spirit didnâ€™t mean changing my personality, just regaining control of it, growing strong enough to hold back and secure enough to soften.”
“It's a game. We tax lawyers teach the rich how to play it so they can stay rich-and the IRS keeps changing the rules so we can keep getting rich teaching them.”
“The way that I sort of direct the writers is, let's do the best story we can. Let's not worry about production issues. 'How much will that cost? How are we going to shoot that?' Let's not set up those constraints on the writing. I don't think it helps the project to work like that.”

Source : "Jose Padilha Talks Robocop Remake". Interview with Scott Collura, Max Nicholson, www.ign.com. November 7, 2011.
“Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.”

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