"Reality TV has managed to commodify everything we used to think of as the elements of normal life."

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Source : Interview with AVC, tv.avclub.com. November 1, 2011.

Merrill Markoe

#Reality Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Tvs Quotes

“The way I miss my daughter Esme is to worry about her. It is not a pleasurable longing. It contorts my body and scrambles my brain, makes me stop breathing, clench my jaw and my fists, it makes me frown, and makes me blind and deaf, in fact entirely without sensory perception.”
“The thing I call â€˜my mindâ€™ seems to be kind of like a landlord that doesnâ€™t really know its tenants.”
“The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.”

Source : Manning Marable, Russell Rickford (2015). “Beyond Boundaries: The Manning Marable Reader”, p.76, Routledge
“Jobs are what give people a sense of fulfillment and self-reliance.”
“The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.”
“You cannot make horses 'safe.”

Source : "Royal approval" by Romilly Weeks, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2008.
“An instinct is an agent which performs blindly and ignorantly a work of intelligence and knowledge.”
“As a preacher I just feel like I have to be honest; I couldn't live with myself if I wasn't. I think that's why I've been able to reach some people who don't feel comfortable in churches. I do make mistakes and I can be goofy and quirky sometimes. I'm not the world's greatest speaker. I don't try to hide that.”

Source : "One Punk Under God". Interview With Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. December 13, 2006.

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