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"Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around."

"TV does a thing that film can never do. It takes you to a place that no novel written after the late 19th century can. You can just go through people's lives it's like a marriage."

"A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station."

"Supermodels are over, and the new picture girl has become the television actress."

"Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have."

"I moved to LA and decided to do films and television, mainly because the theater in New York is totally dead."

"I do still like television very much, but the theatre does really have something special about it."

"It is ridiculous that somebody picks up the phone and calls somebody they see on television. Why don't they call somebody in their area? Don't they know about that?"

"Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry."

"The movie, if I recall, didn't have to do with the television show because there were concerns from everyone that they didn't want it to be like the TV show."
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"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."

"The president of the branch in Atlanta was a pastor of a church, the Reverend Sam Williams, a wonderful guy. He was middle-class and fairly militant for the time and place."

"Many are attracted to social service - the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we have social justice, we won't need social service."

"As skills and energy became more of a demand, people who didn't have skills just got left behind, got shuttled to the side. Education didn't keep up with their promise. Education didn't prepare them for this new world. Jobs went overseas."

"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."

"Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education."
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