"I also know that I have represented for us a certain kind of journalist and for me over the years when an older Black person comes and tells me how proud they are of me and the way I represent us on television, or when a younger person says to me, 'Hey Mr. Gordon, I watched you growing up and my parents made me watch you,'."

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Ed Gordon

#Growing Up Quotes #Years Quotes #Parent Quotes

“I think there's a difference between making comedy and reporting comedy. When you're a joke teller you can easily fall into the second, you can show up and just say the jokes.”
“I think we're at a place wherea woman's health is danger because of whether this family planning or contraception or any issues that relate to women's health, there's an assault on that in the Congress.”
“When I was a kid, if a guy got killed in a western movie I always wondered who got his horse.”
“Sometimes love can be so wrong/Like a fat man in a thong,”

Source : Song: Terms of my Surrender, 2014
“The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.”
“I live without regrets. There are certain things I have done, mistakes that I made, that I would change, but I don't regret them at all, because I've learnt from them.”
“My mother said that when I was young I was constantly saying, Look at this - Look at that. I think that taking pictures must be my way of asking people to Look at this - Look at that. If my photographs make the viewer feel what I did when I first took them - Isn't this funny... terrible... moving... beautiful? - then I've accomplished my purpose.”
“I felt exactly like the man in the advertisement who has not devoted fifteen minutes a day to the study of the classics. If only (I thought) I had devoted fifteen minutes a day to the cultivation of the aesthetic attitude! I could bound Afghanistan.”

Source : "Contemporary Reminiscences". Arts & Decoration, Vol. 26, (p. 50), 1927.

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