"For some reason, people always assign high cheekbones to some ethnicity, but apparently by their regards, everybody on earth has high cheekbones. So I don't know if that matters."

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Source : "Mat Johnson On 'Loving Day' And Life As A 'Black Boy' Who Looks White". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. June 29, 2015.

Mat Johnson

#Ethnicity Quotes #People Quotes #Earth Quotes

“There are days where I turn on the TV or I look at the news and I'm like, "I want to go to Mars. This is insane." But I can't go to Mars! I need to face reality and just to have some hope.”
“I'd been reading Daniel Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year when the [1992 Los Angeles] riots broke out and I began to see them both - L.A. and the London plague - as the same event. A time of crisis. A time when rich and poor get thrown together - and, suddenly one sees alternatives. I began to think about what happens when the containment of a presumed danger through the regimentation of space breaks down, such as when South-Central L.A. began to invade Beverly Hills.”
“New York is a city where it's particularly hard to be poor, not only because everything costs twice as much as it does elsewhere but because over-the-top affluence is part of its identity.”
“A highly worthwhile read with prescriptive examples for authentic sustainability and social justice initiatives at companies--not all about the brand, the celebrity or corporate self-interest.”
“You keep learning all the time.”

Source : Biography/Person Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I was born into BolÃvar's labyrinth, and so I must believe in the hope of Rabelais' Great Perhaps.”
“Nobody else knew what to do with me because big women are old”
“There's only one rule anyone connected with boxing must keep in mind - everything you here in boxing is a lie.”

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