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“In a perfect world, the entertainment and media industry and the content on our screens would reflect the true American scene.”

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Gabrielle Carteris

Gabrielle Carteris, born on January 2, 1961, is an American actress known for her role as Jenny Kelly in the 1980s television series 'The Facts of Life'. more

“When mayors get together they probably have better conversations and have better notes to share about running different cities, and just do what suits. Basically, like when you combine all the religions and take the best bits, you should be able to combine all the cities and take the best bits, the information, the tried and tested things.”

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Author:M.I.A.

“Instead of going to war, we should put the money into arts and culture and let creative people define what Britain is.”

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Author:M.I.A.

“The mentality has taken over because of the way we've promoted things. It's been accepted, to live with fear, and to fear that it's going to be terrible, prepare for the worst. The meat and potato of our existence right now is influenced by what happened after 9/11 - we put our thinking into protecting borders.”

Thinking Existence Taken Worst Terrible Accepted Mentality

Author:M.I.A.

“When you are portraying a person that is very real, in my case, Katherine Johnson is still alive, she is 98-years old; there is a responsibility to get it right. I guess the biggest thing that I took away from Katherine was her humility. When you talk about superheroes there are selfless, they don't think about themselves, they put humanity first.”

Thinking Real Humanity Responsibility Humility Selfless Superhero

Author:Taraji P. Henson

“I talked to Katherine Johnson, and I tried to make it weighty by asking things like, "How as a Black woman did you do your work in NASA? They were misogynistic, and I'm sure you got called the n-word." She was just like, "Well, that was the way it was. I just did my job. I wanted to do my job." She was just so humble.”

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Author:Taraji P. Henson

“Katherine Johnson passion for math, the way I light up when I get asked questions about acting is the way her eyes danced when she talked about math and how she wanted people to fall in love with numbers the way that she did. If I had a teacher like that, I could have been a rocket scientist.”

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Author:Taraji P. Henson

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