Karyn Parsons quotes

“Black history isn't a separate history. This is all of our history, this is American history, and we need to understand that. It has such an impact on kids and their values and how they view black people.”
-- Karyn Parsons

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“I don't look like a model, but you have to work with what you got.”
-- Karyn Parsons

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“My mother was a librarian, and she worked at the Black Resource Center in South Central Los Angeles and would call me to tell me stories that she read about that were interesting to her.”
-- Karyn Parsons

Source : "Karyn Parsons’ Mission To Share The Untold Stories Of Black History Heroes". Interview with Jessica Dickerson, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 1, 2014.

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“Im married to a white man, and then my daughter came out looking like the whitest white child with blonde hair and blue eyes. And Im like, Omigosh, now what am I going to do? She has my moms features and is lighter than my husband. And my boy is browner than I am. Brown eyes and really tan.”
-- Karyn Parsons

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“Black history isn’t a separate history. This is all of our history, this is American history, and we need to understand that. It has such an impact on kids and their values and how they view black people.”
-- Karyn Parsons

Source : "Karyn Parsons’ Mission To Share The Untold Stories Of Black History Heroes". Interview with Jessica Dickerson, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 1, 2014.

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“Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.”

“I have a dog and sometimes I'll be the littlest kid with my dog and marvel at his ears and his nose and how he looks at me. If he died, I'd bawl like a baby.”

“As a kid, I always wanted to obviously win a Super Bowl. Now that I've got one, it's like, 'Now what?' Let's go get another one!”

“I didn't grow up a theatre kid, going to theatre camps. I played sports, and that was my main direction. But luckily, I never had to choose between sports and theatre.”

“He isn’t like us Low. You know that right.” I knew what Cage was saying. Marcus was out of my league. He didn’t want me thinking there could ever be anything between me and his roommate. I was low class. Marcus was a rich kid. “I’m not stupid Cage.”

“The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his work, then he becomes a lesser artist.”

“Whittle was an amazing chap. Tiny, stubborn, unstoppable - jet-propelled! It's amazing the impact his invention has had upon the world.”

“The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.”

Source : Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch (2011). “The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage”, p.58, Baker Books

“I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.”

“Upon the subject of education ... I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in.”