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Henry Hampton Quotes

We don't have a full black community in Boston. Our people are scattered. There's a middle class where I live in Highland Park but it's not like a piece of Washington or Chicago.

Henry Hampton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: american
Birth: August 19, 1940 - November 22, 1998

Topics

Live Community People Black Chicago

Systems are overrated; players are underrated.

Jeff Van Gundy

Players Underrated Systems Overrated

One of my problems is that I'm very honest and direct. You pay a price for that.

Amy Irving

Problems You Price Pay Honest Very

I'm not a film snob.

Tracey Ullman

Snob Film

I always loved science. And in fact, I got a science award in high school. I mean, I loved science, but I think I loved literature more.

Rita Dove

Science School High School Think

Federal policy should not block those who are prepared to risk their own wealth to create an enormous energy export industry here in America.

Mike Pompeo

Energy America Wealth Create Risk

I wanted to talk face-to-face with as many people as would see me. Some actors were so busy they could only give me an hour on the phone. But my feeling is that if you're actually in the room with them, they get comfortable and you get more.

Mitchell Zuckoff

People Me Busy You Feeling Phone

I did a commercial when I was, like, 5 or 6 years old for... what was it called?... Cabbage Patch Kids! That was the first thing I ever did. Little bit embarrassing.

Logan Lerman

Old First Years Little Kids Cabbage

I was eleventh-grade class president. That was the first elective office I held until I came into Congress.

Donna Edwards

Congress Class First Office I Came

I was debauched in my 20s, but I was fit and healthy in my teens.

Davinia Taylor

Healthy Fit Teens

Rugby gave me a confidence. I was quite shy and relatively timid, but it gave me the confidence to be a little bit more out-going and back myself a bit more.

Brian O'Driscoll

Confidence Myself Me Back Shy More

I got a job in advertising. So even though I was writing, I was always supporting myself. That's the thing that would matter for my father, who was absolutely a creature of the Great Depression.

Peter Carey

Father Great Myself Depression Job

'Bum's Rush' is a piece about timing, and everything that's in the piece needs to be with the piece. If people are missing, or marking, or unable to use their voices, the impulses that prompt the action are lost, and its logic crumbles.

Twyla Tharp

People Action Logic Lost Timing