"Mother loathed the all-black B movies Hollywood made for the "colored" audience, where the stereotypes were broader and more offensive to her, and where the musical interludes did no justice to real talent, she said, but trivialized it."

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Source : Gayle Pemberton (1998). “The Hottest Water in Chicago: Notes of a Native Daughter”, p.41, Wesleyan University Press

Gayle Pemberton

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“I don't remember those early playoff games. Keep it positive. I'm a different player. More focused. I know how important it is to score in the playoffs.”
“Joy is realized as the natural by-product of the passionate pursuit of something other than happiness.”
“Copying is about reverse-engineering.”
“But I think that Australians have a sort of independence, and I think that, rightly or wrongly, they tend to make their own decisions as to how a thing has gone. Pioneers are apt to be like that. I think that it's not a bad idea. You can listen to what everybody says, but the fact remains that you've got to get out there and do the thing yourself.”
“Stay humble as a writer: write on toilet paper.”
“I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.”
“In Hollywood, moviemaking used to be about escaping reality to go to the movies”

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“Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?”

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