"People learn a lot about what they think they know about other people from what they see in the media. If they see certain types of images reproduced over and over again for other groups that limit them to narrow types of roles and portrayals, they start to take those prejudices into their interactions with those people in real society, and that creates all kinds of discriminatory problems."

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Source : Source: www.pbs.org

Darnell M. Hunt

#Real Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Media Quotes

“I don't want my album coming out with a 'G' rating. Nobody would buy it.”
“The thing that differs me from a lot of other people running for the President of the United States is that I focus on the problem first. Then I focus on what the solution is.”
“Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.”
“It puzzles me how they know what corners are good for filling stations. Just how did they know gas and oil was under there?”
“Parents should not smoke in order to discourage their kids from smoking. A child is more likely to smoke when they have been raised in the environment of a smoker.”
“To remain alone did not seem to me a terrible fate, no worse than being falsely joined to another person.”
“The future is not as loud as war, but it is relentless. It has a terrible fury all its own.”

Source : "The Shining Girls". Book by Lauren Beukes, 2013.
“What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.”

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