Norman Lear Quotes

We did an episode on Good Times which came out of a newspaper article about the incidence of hypertension in black males being higher than whites, and increasing. So we did a show in which James, the father on Good Times, had hypertension.

- Norman Lear

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Maybe they continued to agree with Archie Bunker - as I said earlier, you can't change people's minds, but you can get them to think. - Norman Lear

I guess because the shows were activist in their own way - the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know - people understand me very well. They also understand there's a very strong bipartisan part in all of this. - Norman Lear