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“An hour before his world exploded like a ripe tomato under a stiletto heel, Myron bit into a fresh pastry that tasted suspiciously like urinal cake.”
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“A black boxer's career is the perfect metaphor for the career of a black male. Every day is like being in the gym, sparring with impersonal opponents as one faces the rudeness and hostility that a black male must confront in the United States, where he is the object of both fear and fascination.”
Source : Ishmael Reed (1988). “Writin' is fightin': thirty-seven years of boxing on paper”, Scribner
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“The problem with an economic meltdown is that the responsibility and the challenges to deal with the environment are squandered. That's an age-old battle in terms of the major conflicts in places like Afghanistan, etc. So there are age-old battles that'll keep going on. Unfortunately, man is a very slow learner, and we tend to repeat mistakes, as opposed to learning from mistakes.”
Source : Source: www.avclub.com
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“I don't think President Obama has been that revolutionary in reaching out to ethnic communities. President Reagan did a lot for the black community that people don't realize.”
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“When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible for that mind, in its maturity, to examine sincerely, dispassionately, and conscientiously any evidence or any circumstance which shall seem to cast a doubt upon the validity of that superstition. I doubt if I could do it myself.”
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“Aloha Earth, this is Elvis calling. You'll find me in the big house now.”
Source : Song: Elvis Has Just Left the Building
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“It's fun to play a character who lives on the edge, who is an ethical and moral mess, and is paying the price for some of his actions.”
Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl.”