Spencer Paysinger Quotes

There are so many people that don't come in contact with black men. Whether they live in a homogeneous area that's mostly white or whether they live in places where they don't have to come in contact with them. So what kind of contact do they have with African-American males? They have the media, and that's it.

I'm raising a child, and it's public. The media creates these dramas, and that's not what's happening in my life.

I was a journalist when I made 'I'm British But...' I'd seen how important the media was in terms of defining Indians - after the riots in the '80s, I was like, 'Oh my God!'

When ghetto living seems normal, you have no shame, no privacy.

The media works in sound bites. They can make you look like a genius or stupid.

As a city, we have to face the reality that New York's minority communities experience a disproportionate share of violent crime.

If you interviewed 1,000 politicians and asked about whether the media's too soft or too hard, about 999 would say too hard.

The image of one country and its people amongst peoples of another country is largely created and sustained by the media.

Many a public figure has come to imitate the journalism which describes him.

In the world's eyes, what they know of me is from the blogs. What they know is from the media.

I didn't have to leave my neighborhood to be surrounded by the things that 'Super Fly' is about. It was easier than most scripts because it was about an environment that I knew.

I don't think I even have a clear perspective of how I'm depicted in the media.

While 'The Wire' feels startlingly lifelike, it is not, in fact, a naturalistic depiction of ghetto life. That kind of realism better describes an earlier miniseries of Simon's, 'The Corner,' which was based on the book of the same title that he and Ed Burns wrote, set in the same Baltimore ghetto.

I grew up in Compton: 116th and Wilmington.

Playing a cop on TV and working closely with actual cops on set, I do think the media does a disservice to our first responders.

I think the media has portrayed conservatives as these cold, heartless people who want poor people to die and let half the population starve and all this. They've done that so effectively because they've owned the narrative for so long.

I don't think that anyone has been really created more by the white press than the civil right leaders.

I used to live in a street in Bristol which was, depending on your tabloid of choice, either Britain's most dangerous street or a moral cesspit. People made judgments about me on where I lived. It affected me - it affected my life chances. That is going on today with people in social housing. That, to me, isn't acceptable.

I'm going to make my own 'Trapped In The Closet' one day, about a black kid growing up in the hood.

I don't really take into account what the media says. People have their own opinions about what goes on, but they don't see what goes on behind the scenes with an athlete and their preparation.

I've been an activist since I was a teenager. I was always curious about what we would now call social justice. I remember just trying to navigate growing up poor in an overpoliced environment with a single mother and a father who was in and out of prison.

I'm from the inner city of Buffalo.

When was the last time an Arab MK who appeared on television wasn't there in the role of the accused who is attacked by a skeptical broadcaster?

I can't be happy if I want to because the media won't let me be. They keep propagating a tacky image of mine. They even make my charity work look like a publicity stunt.

When I lived in England my perception of what people thought of me was largely formed by the media.