H. Rap Brown Quotes
One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty.
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The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.
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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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I think any branding for me is band-related. It's really weird to get used to the exposure, because I am a naturally introverted person, and I'm not exactly social. Occasionally I can get comfortable enough to talk, but I spend a lot of my days not talking, especially when I'm at home and not on tour.
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.
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I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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Why pay a fee for Internet content when a million free sites are just a click away? There's no incentive until people are too addicted to the Net to turn off their computers, yet are bored with what's available.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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I had no future with the Dodgers, because I was too closely identified with Branch Rickey. After the club was taken over by Walter O'Malley, you couldn't even mention Mr. Rickey's name in front of him. I considered Mr. Rickey the greatest human being I had ever known.
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I am a very selfish person.
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People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.
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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
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I DJ'd for years. I DJ'd in high school, and I think my parents thought it was a passing thing. And then when I was in my second year of college, I was like, 'Yeah, you guys don't need to send me money anymore. My DJ gigs are good enough. I'm selling music; I think I'm gonna have a record deal. I can pay my tuition.'
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War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
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I often feel like not writing! Sometimes I overcome it by just sitting there until writing happens. Sometimes I don't write, because books often need periods of percolation.
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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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'Troy' is an adaptation of the Trojan War myth in its entirety, not 'The Iliad' alone. 'The Iliad' begins with the quarrel between Achilles and Agamemnon over the slave girl Briseis nine years into the war. The equivalent scene occurs halfway through my script.
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All sex, even consensual sex between a married couple, is an act of violence perpetrated against a woman.
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Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
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We always get dressings and sauces on the side. However, we definitely like our glass of wine - or three sometimes. We order dessert but just take a few bites. I stopped buying processed foods. The hardest part is teaching this to our kids, but slowly we're making progress.
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I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone.
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One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty.
