Keith Stanfield Quotes
Have you ever heard of 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?' I would like to play Sidney Poitier's role - I love that role.
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When think about the Frank Oceans of the world, it's not like we don't have gay men within the hip-hop community.
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I can take an opinion, but I don't like when you try and spew hate and contaminate the way other people think. I feel like I'm one of the people that's always made music for the common man. That's why I don't really live my life the way I could. I don't stunt as much as I could stunt, 'cause that's not who my music is for.
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People say I look like a vampire. I don't know whether to take that as a compliment or not.
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Stereotypes do exist, but we have to walk through them.
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But anybody who steps into the lane beside you is the biggest competition because they made it to the finals.
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Hawaii was beautiful of course, we played at Turtle Bay an amazing resort right on the ocean.
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Our intention creates our reality.
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I had been playing since I was 2 years old, never remembering a life without music, always playing everything naturally and mostly by ear, and all the grownups wanted were more scales and drudgery out of me.
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I do like the idea of being an auteur in the sense of writing and being in your own stuff.
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And yet this very singleness of vision and thorough oneness with his age is a mark of the successful man. It is as though Nature needs must make men narrow in order to give them force.
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We humanitarians, as our name suggests, believe that man has an ethical duty to man. We believe that the value of any system is measured by the consideration given to all human beings, not just to a favored class: and by that standard, our present system is a miserable failure.
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Scientists, animated by the purpose of proving they are purposeless, constitute an interesting subject for study.
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I think it was a generous thought, and one that fow'd from an exalted mind, that it was not improbable but God might be delighted with the various methods of worshipping him, which divided the whole world.
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You want to talk about the fading of an icon? You never said I was an icon in the first place. But you want to talk about it in a derogatory fashion. You say the superstar has fallen. But you've never called me a superstar ever. It's only that you use these words when you want to say something derogatory.
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With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.
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The music that really turns me on is either running toward God or away from God. Both recognize the pivot, that God is at the center of the jaunt.
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I know this sounds weird, but I honestly believe music comes from the universe. Inspiration comes from the universe, and you drag it into your mind.
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I didn't rebel as a child. I missed that angry teenager thing.
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Sometimes it's other people's voices you have to shut out.
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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.
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Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.
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I just never wanted to be too much in the background. I always wanted to be a part of things.
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Have you ever heard of 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?' I would like to play Sidney Poitier's role - I love that role.
