"I think there's no question that Michael Jackson was the foremost entertainer of his generation; perhaps of all time, arguably, taking the skills of a Sammy Davis, Jr., bringing together the street dance of African American urban culture, joining them to the politics of dance, of Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly on that sphere alone."

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Michael Eric Dyson

#Thinking Quotes #Skills Quotes #African American Quotes

“Tobacco companies are legally operating entities in Australia. If the Government thinks that they should not make donations to political parties, well then they should ban them operating as legally structured entities in Australia.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I really did graduate at 14, and I go to college in the Los Angeles area near where I live.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system.”
“Every top team has got at least one top keeper. You need people to move, managers to change. You need something to happen for something to happen. You can't just charge in somewhere.”

Source : Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“There's folks 'ud hold a sieve under the pump and expect to carry away the water.”
“If you think about black art, all black art, whether it's Invisible Man or whether it's James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Zora Hurston, or Richard Wright, they all deal with elements of identity and trying to humanize our experience and our struggle in the world where people have been indifferent to who we are and what we are. It's basically just saying that our lives have meaning.”

Source : Source: deadline.com
“One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in one act, but that with frequent repetition and gradually increasing familiarity with the series this capacity of consciousness may be increased”

Source : Hermann Ebbinghaus (1913). “Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology”
“When I hear something going wrong, I insist on it being put right.”

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