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"I've appeared on a weekly syndicated television show since 1980."
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"Supermodels are over, and the new picture girl has become the television actress."
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"Book - what they make a movie out of for television."
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"Television's not going read stories to you."
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"Some of the most important stories don't lend themselves to television treatment."
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"I moved to LA and decided to do films and television, mainly because the theater in New York is totally dead."
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"Television makes so much at its worst that it can't afford to do its best."
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"The shows are either 11 or 22 minutes and they move pretty quickly, and that's part of the charm of them - so it was just trying to keep that in mind and keep the energy of the story moving, even though we were dealing with a longer format."
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"We took the whole thing far too seriously. After all, those were early days in television."
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"We're just dealing with the kind of warp and woof of television ratings."
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"They put me on television. And the whole thing broke loose. It was wild, I tell ya for sure."
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"You know, I come from six generations of college graduates."
College
"Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education."
Education
"Any time someone carries a picket sign in front of the White House, that is the First Amendment in action."
Time
"Ever since I've become chairman, there have been profiles of me in People, George, The Washington Post, The Detroit News, and all of them could have been written by the same person."
People
"I tell young people to prepare themselves as best they can for a world that grows more challenging every day-get the best education they can, and couple that education with real-life experience in social justice work."
Education
"But even at the height of these scandals, even at the time when our finances were at their worst, the NAACP branches - the grassroots - kept plugging away. They kept doing what they do, and they do it well."
Time
"I do think that some of us began to realize that this was going to be a long struggle that was going to go on for decades, and you'd have to knuckle down. A lot of people in our generation did that. They didn't drop out and run away."
People
"Black reporters are as capable of racism as anyone else."
Racism
"There is a thin line between politics and theatricals."
Politics
"Griffin Bell later apologized to me for that decision."
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