#act

Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#affirmative #affirmative action #awards #choices #compassion

I embrace my blackness, just as I do my conservatism and my Christianity, but I don't want to be defined or pigeonholed by any one of the many elements that make up my character. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#blackness #character #christianity #conservatism #defined

I'm not one that believes that affirmative action should be based on one's skin color or one's gender, I think it should be done based on one's need, because I think if you are from a poor white community, I think that poor white kid needs a scholarship just as badly as a poor black kid. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#affirmative #affirmative action #badly #based #because

Most of all, however, critics of black conservatives say we've forgotten where we came from. I may forget a federal budget number or, God forbid, to set the alarm clock for my weekly 6 a.m. flight to Washington, but I know exactly where I came from. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#black #budget #came #clock #conservatives

The Republican Party is terrific at determining how a program will impact the federal budget, but we're not nearly as good as the Democrats in explaining to people how our agenda will directly benefit them and their families. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#benefit #budget #democrats #determining #directly

There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it. ↗

— Naomi Watts

#ashamed #closet #gonna #i #know

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#actions #alone #determines #worth #your

I enjoy the character interplay. Sometimes the audience is not laughing, but smiling, and that is almost just as good because it keeps them ready to laugh. ↗

— Keenen Ivory Wayans

#audience #because #character #enjoy #good

I go through a whole process with the actors first, building and creating characters, then I encourage them to sort of live in that character when they're in the screen. ↗

— Keenen Ivory Wayans

#character #characters #creating #encourage #first

I put heavy emphasis on the characters. ↗

— Keenen Ivory Wayans

#emphasis #heavy #i #put