Quotes about Media

Any of us in the public eye must remember: Never, ever believe your own press, and pray to develop a hypersensitive gag reflex regarding your own importance.

Why do we always have to see black people in hindsight? Why are the Hollywood movies always historical? What about the contemporary image of black people?

Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents - but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea.

Blogs seem to have two magnetic poles, one attracting friends, the other repulsing relatives.

You don't realize how little accuracy there is in network TV reporting until they cover a story in your hometown.

A blogger is constantly looking over his shoulder, for fear that he is not being followed.

I told you the Bible was more to be depended on than newspapers!

Female singers should just be sprinkled into airplay now and again as garnish. "'The tomatoes of our salad are the females,'" Ruthanna said. "That was his exact quote. And that's why they call it Tomato-gate.

Every video I'm in, every magazine cover, they stretch you; they make you perfect. It's not real life.

My name had become a brand. (I have mixed emotions about that part of our (Christian media) industry, for sure.)

Holiness begins in our minds and works out to our actions. This being true, what we allow to enter our minds is critically important. The television programs we watch, the movies we may attend, the books and magazines we read, the music we listen to, and the conversations we have all affect our minds.

Oh yes, it exists, and the news media is always quick to highlight examples of anti-black racial hostility, but it is not the all-powerful, institutional beast so many say it is. But once people believe racism is their main problem, they become subject to that idea, and it prevents them from progressing.