Quotes about "Social Justice & Equality"

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. ”

My goal is to broaden and deepen the range of African-American characters on television, so I always try to show human beings. ”

You can't separate the phenomenal birth of unionism in the United States of America from the Pullman porters. This same small group of men, who grew to be 10,000 strong, was also the organizational foundation for the civil rights movement and all of the gains that were made in the '40s and the '50s. That, and the black church. ”

Unfortunately, in television today there are very few African-American characters who are human beings. They are typically two-dimensional stereotypes, cookie-cutter types. ”

The last thing I want to do is to write about real things. I am not interested in reality and in real human beings and their real day-to-day problems - I just want to say to them, 'Hold still, and I'm just going to unpack, see what's inside.' ”

I think the human body is beautiful, and I don't really have a huge problem in dealing with it, but it's the context, the environment and what I feel about it that that makes the difference for me. ”

To be a champion requires more than simply being a strong player; one has to be a strong human being as well. ”

To be champion requires more than simply being a strong player; one has to be a strong human being as well. ”

Chess is a very tough game, and psychologically a tough game. And of course, chess needs a lot of qualities, human qualities. And so you must have a very strong nervous system, and then you must be well prepared; you must be able to work a lot. ”

It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion. ”