Black Like Me John Howard Griffin Quotes

#1. When I listen to my scene partners and listen to their breathing allows me to be connected to them in scenes. I am not trying to multi task, not trying to talk on the phone, but in my character.

Giancarlo Esposito

#2. Racists are not the pipe-smoking type, I thought to myself.

John Howard Griffin

#3. A law is not good merely because the legislature wills it, but the legislature has the mortal duty to will only that which is good.

John Howard Griffin

#4. Four years ago, who ever thought this would have happened?

Drew Brees

#5. If we have a chance coming to the Top and no have luck For stay there, the way down can be very Scary for the change in our Life style.

Jan Jansen

#6. Now you go into oblivion.

John Howard Griffin

#7. I often don't go to sleep and work through the night. I can't seem to do my vocal takes if there's light outside. There's a gentleness to the night that leads me in my stride.

Jamie Woon

#8. If the judgement makes the law and not the law directs the judgement, it is impossible there should be such a thing as an illegal judgement given.

John Howard Griffin

#9. In Black Like Me, I tried to establish one simple fact, which was to reveal the insanity of a situation where a man is judged by his skin color, by his philosophical "accident" - rather than by who he is in his humanity.

John Howard Griffin

#10. People want to be famous, they want to be loved, they want to be accepted. They want to push aside their past and the things that have been embarrassing to them.

Sandra Bernhard