Artists can color the sky red because they know it’s blue. Those of us who aren’t artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we’re stupid.
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As a matter of racial pride we want to be called blacks. Which has replaced the term Afro-American. Which replaced Negroes. Which replaced colored people. Which replaced darkies. Which replaced blacks.
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I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn’t poor, I was needy. They told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy, I was deprived. Then they told me underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still don’t have a dime. But I have a great vocabulary.
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Birth: | 26th January, 1929 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Cartoonist, Playwright, Professor, Screenwriter, Writer |
Jules Ralph Feiffer is an American syndicated cartoonist, most notable for his long run comic strip titled Feiffer. He has created more than 35 books, plays and screenplays. In 1986, he won the Pulitzer Prize for his editorial cartooning in The Village Voice. He currently works as an instructor with the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton.
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