Jenifer Lewis Quotes
I never thought I'd be using this phrase, but the pursuit of happiness - that's my right.
This is a strong belief of Conservatives In America. Many of them erroneously believe that all Liberals advocate the government being responsible for everyone’s happiness. The reason that this quotation is important is not for the statement that has been made thousands of times by others, but because in this case it is made by an extreme Liberal. Trumbo was one of the Liberal victims of McCarthyism, the Red Scare and the Hollywood Blacklist because he refused to testify before the Congressional Committees regarding other people’s political beliefs and affiliations. He has long espoused Liberal causes and was extremely influential writing two Academy Award winning screenplays which were awarded to other screenwriters who were fronting for him as he was Blacklisted as a member of the original “Hollywood 10”.
Jenifer Jeanette Lewis is an American actress, comedian and activist. She began her career appearing in Broadway musicals and worked as a back-up singer for Bette Midler before appearing in films Beaches (1988) and Sister Act (1992). Lewis is known for playing roles of mothers in the films What's Love Got to Do With It (1993), Poetic Justice (1993), The Preacher's Wife (1996), The Brothers (2001), The Cookout (2004), Think Like a Man (2012) and in the sequel Think Like a Man Too (2014), Baggage Claim (2013), and The Wedding Ringer (2015), as well as in The Temptations TV miniseries (1998).
