"Why does every black person in the movies have to play a servant? How about a black person walking up the steps of a courthouse carrying a briefcase?"

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

Myrna Loy

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“Because, in opera, I have to sing for people that are very far from me, instead of, when I sing a song, I try to imagine to sing like in an ear of a child.”
“You'll never know what's happening inside the heads of other people.”
“A piano is a machine, but you've got ivory and there's weight behind the keys and you have this really - you feel the resonance in the instrument, you feel the vibration in the pedal. I mean, these a still very crude.”
“So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.”

Source : Speech delivered to the Bombay Presidency Mahar Conference, www.columbia.edu. May 31, 1936.
“I believe that the souls of women flatten and anchor themselves in times of adversity, lay in for the stay.”
“It's just such a great miracle when things do work, and they work for such a wild variety of crazy reasons.”
“When was the last time someone told you 'Look at the bright side of things' when you were depressed, and you actually paid attention to them? Maybe some people do, but I sure as hell don't.”
“They say an elephant never forgets. Well, you are not an elephant. Take notes, constantly. Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologiesâ€¦the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you. When you're stumped, go to your notes like a wizard to his spellbook. Mash those thoughts together. Extend them in every direction until they meet.”

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