H. Rap Brown Quotes
The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other.
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If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country.
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People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.
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I am dying soon, and I am choosing to have fun today, tomorrow and every other day I have left.
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When I first came out, country wouldn't touch me because I was way too rock, and rock wouldn't touch me because I was definitely country.
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It doesn't work that way, you know, because most parts that you think you'd do well, most other people don't. So they offer you something - The Avengers is a good example... I fitted into that because I came from that sort of background. It's not even acting.
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African Americans are one of the oldest ethnic groups in this country. We been here since the beginning. Before the beginning.
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I don't want to be known as the one who makes movies for older people.
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I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.
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Segregation, in a sense, helped create and maintain black solidarity.
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Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since.
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When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I start getting into this total meditation. It's a feeling few people experience, and that's usually when I come up with weird stuff. It just flows. I can't force myself. I don't sit down and say I've got to practice.
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I think I need to accept the fact that I am where I am today because fans have shared my music illegally and legally, but I wouldn't be here today without the Internet, so I can't speak out against it.
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I'm a big champion of people doing things outside the system.
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Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.
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You know, it's a really adult thing, for some people, to choose to not be with the one that you love.
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All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.
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I'm aware people will think I've had an easy way into a dream career. My view is, if anyone has opportunities, they'll take them. My surname opens doors, but those doors will slam firmly if I'm no good.
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I'm just very pleased and thankful that there was a receptive audience of people that I was able to connect with.
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Twelve years ago, if someone attacked me, I wouldn't let them get away with it. I'd take them on. I now perceive my job to include allowing people to vent their rage.
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Mick Jagger's fans bought records with their allowances. Sinatra's people bought them out of wages.
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Black Books adheres to a more old fashioned, traditional sitcom format, which I think works, because in its own way, it's quite theatrical.
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I now work for a finance company in Luxembourg with projects in South America and the Caribbean.
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Black, like white, is the best color!
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The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other.
