Roland G. Fryer, Jr. quotes

Roland G. Fryer, Jr. quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Among Hispanics, there is little change in popularity from a grade point average of 1 through 2.5. After 2.5, the gradient turns sharply negative. A Hispanic student with a 4.0 grade point average is the least popular of all Hispanic students, and has 3 fewer friends than a typical white student with a 4.0 grade point average.”
-- Roland G. Fryer, Jr.

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“the apathy and inattention of the average citizen is beyond comprehension.”
“Maybe I'm delusional but I'm usually funny. It's not 100% but I have a pretty good batting average.”
“That's referee Mike Reed's 50th booking of the season, which works out at an average of six a game.”
“I think you should know that real-life white people are not all as funny as the ones on 'Seinfeld'.”
“All the Muslims are happy, and Godwilling this earthquake... will be felt right up to the White House.”
“It's a significant question: should black people only adopt black children, and white people white children?”

Source : "Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje: 'I didn't want to be black. So I joined the skinheads...'" by Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2012.
“Capablanca used to talk calmly and moderately about everything. However, when our conversation turned to the problems of the battle for the world championship, in front of me was a quite different person: an enraged lion, although with the fervour typical only of a southerner, with his temperamental patter, which made it hard to follow the torrent of his indignant exclamations and words.”
“Typical horror movies of the 1930s were often given a period setting in what looked like a kind of stylized 19th century... the sense of 'elsewhen', of distance, lent to many of these movies by their settings. They exist, as it were, in a 19th century of the mind.”
“Are we changing the idea of what beauty is? Let's hope so. I'm not the typical Hollywood beauty. Let's hope we're looking at the insides of people a little more.”
“Strange how much simple wisdom there is to be found in the deformed head and unprepossessing carcase of your typical London cabbie.”

Source : Auberon Waugh, Anna Galli-Pahlavi (1985). “The diaries of Auberon Waugh, 1976-1985: a turbulent decade”, Andre Deutsch Ltd

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