Influence
Black Orpheus was cited by Jean-Michel Basquiat as one of his early musical influences. Barack Obama notes in his memoir, Dreams from My Father (1995), that it was his mother's favorite film.
The film was mentioned by the character Cliff Huxtable in the first season of The Cosby Show (Episode 10, "Bonjour Sondra", aired 22 November 1984) as the movie seen by him during early adulthood that made him desire to travel to Rio.
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“Nature has taken more care than the fondest parent for the education and refinement of her children. Consider the silent influence which flowers exert, no less upon the ditcher in the meadow than the lady in the bower. When I walk in the woods, I am reminded that a wise purveyor has been there before me; my most delicate experience is typified there.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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“Temperament is the natural, inborn style of behavior of each individual. It’s the how of behavior, not the why.... The question is not, “Why does he behave a certain way if he doesn’t get a cookie?” but rather, “When he doesn’t get a cookie, how does he express his displeasure...?” The environment—and your behavior as a parent—can influence temperament and interplay with it, but it is not the cause of temperamental characteristics.”
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