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"I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer."
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"A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi... has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for."
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"My mother taught me to read."
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"My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland."
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"The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart."
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"Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn't like that, but I read it anyhow."
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"I was born in Norway, and when I was little I went to live in Detroit, Michigan. My father was a professor of philosophy at Wayne University, and my mother was also a teacher."
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"My mother's five-foot-two, and I'll be honest with you - she's the only person I'm scared of."
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"My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust."
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"My mother's suicide attempts were a way to release anxiety and get attention. Some of the attempts were drug reactions she didn't even remember later on."
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"I know Mother named me after a railroad man, but it's too late now, I'm afraid. Much, much too late."
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"Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America."
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"She encouraged any artistic impulse I had, and my father discouraged any artistic impulse I had. They took out their problems with each other on me and my sister."
Father
"But now with technology I could sit down and do a bunch of character drawings and scan them into a computer, and the computer using my exact style could bring it into life, where it would have been edited by various human beings before."
Technology
"Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr."
Art
"I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer."
Mother
"What I do is draw but if you make an animated feature obviously it takes a whole team of people, and Zippy is my work. I felt that turning it over to a team of people would be wrong."
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"Comics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively."
People
"My first character was Mr. Toad."
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"Zippy accepts chaos as what it is, which is the real order of everything."
Chaos
"I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork."
Beauty
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