American Broadcaster Quotes

Mumia Abu-Jamal

Studs Terkel

Billy Taylor

Dara Torres

Dorothy Thompson

Emmitt Smith

Paul Harvey

Television makes so much at its worst that it can't afford to do its best.

Fred W. Friendly

I wish I knew how it would feel to be free
I wish I could break all the chains holding me
I wish I could say all the things that I should say
Say 'em loud say 'em clear
For the whole wide world to hear.

Only when African Americans, the lesbian and gay community, and families accept black homosexuals and love them for who they are will these now separate families regain many of their members. In doing so, they will help some to find their way back home and discover that many others are already there.

I'd proven to the world that maturity, experience, dedication, and ingenuity can make up for a little senescence. Muscle tightening is not the only thing that happens to our bodies over time. We gain knowledge, focus, and understanding, and those things can help us win.

The Chicago Bulls' Michael Jordan's three-point explosion in Game 1 of the 1992 NBA Finals against Portland is easily one of the greatest performances I've ever seen. As he made his sixth straight, he winked directly at (broadcast partner) Mike (Fratello) and me and held his palms up in a shrug, as if to say, What can I do?

You have to be as fully prepared for the dull game as you are for the great game, or else you won't be prepared for the great one.

What about the people that couldn't get out?! Someday it's gonna happen to you!... You won't have a car, and you won't have a government airplane, and you won't have a cell phone, and you won't have a weapon!... Blaming the victim...

People have accused me of being so far up Tiger's arse that he can barely make a full swing, but I maintain that he is a special person.

Hello Americans, I'm Paul Harvey. You know what the news is — in a minute, you're going to hear the rest of the story.

In many ways, religion comes from the same place in us that art comes from. The language of the human heart if poetry

(Roberto) Clemente could field the ball in New York and throw out a guy in Pennsylvania.

You will find a blacker world on death row than anywhere else. African-Americans, a mere 11 percent of the national population, compose about 40 percent of the death row population. There, too, you will find this writer.

Mumia Abu-Jamal

One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.

Tim Cook is not Steve Jobs. In fact, he's about as thrilling as dental floss.

Such close observations of apes and birds and dolphins remind us that humanity is part of a great animal kingdom. All species within this kingdom differ from one another in significant ways, to be sure, but the kingdom does not seem to be organized on the superior/inferior hierarchy. Species are merely different from one another; they are not better than, nor more or less advanced than, each other. The core experience of all animal life is strikingly similar.

Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.

Dorothy Thompson

We are all born naked into this world, but each of us is fully clothed in potential.

I don't know very many people who were able to say at a young age, "I'm going to do this" and do it, and it just kind of all went that way. It's pretty much unpredictable and a random path. You can't really control the circumstances of your life, you can only control what you do with it, how you react, how you respond, how you hold it. … What I do control is what I do with what happens, and I try to keep a positive attitude, not always easy, and I try to focus on what my mission, core mission is. And that helps you more than anything else if you know what your mission is.

You can work next to a guy for months without even knowing his name.