H. Rap Brown Quotes
The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
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When you make a living from something, it changes your relationship with it.
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Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smokey Joe Wood.
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There's a tendency among some male writers to make the women in their stories weak and needing of rescue so that their hero looks like a manly man.
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I think that as you get older, you become aware of everything that could go wrong.
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Nobody is gonna love you like you. You're gonna be your best salesman.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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The beautiful thing about working with new instruments is that you sort of approach it with a fresh perspective.
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Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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You don't choose who you sit next to in a theater. You sit in a theater, and there's an energy that happens.
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The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.
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Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
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You can always make peace with an F-16 in your pocket.
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Music is really nothing if you think about it - it only becomes something when somebody listens to it. And then it becomes uncontrollable.
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In Men in Black, it was a very small character, no pun intended.
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When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness.
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You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.
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You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man. Well, that's because there's been so many can do it better'n I can, play the blues better'n me. I think a lot of them have told me things, taught me things.
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I take it seriously that it's a privilege and honor to be a role model to young girls, both black and white. It's not something I take lightly.
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Trust me, I would love to have a wife and kids. I would very much enjoy that. But I also know that you have to be in the right place to do that.
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Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does.
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I don't have deal breakers," Alan said. "I look on tempests, and am never shaken.
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The novel is a seduction; a reader has to be seduced.
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No, I don't know any Emily Dickinson poems!
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The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
