H. Rap Brown Quotes
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I just don't want to be rapping forever. I love it, but sometimes you got goals for yourself.
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That's what I love about our music - it'll never be a hit because you can't dance to it.
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You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over.
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As a member of the audience I don't like it that I can't see what's going on in the eyes and in the face and in the most subtle responses of a performer when I'm more than a few rows back. I find it very frustrating.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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The thing I love about vampires that I find so fascinating is that, unlike other sci-fi creations, they aren't monsters from the get-go, they're human beings first... and so what kind of human you are would dictate what kind of vampire you would be.
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I'm a Republican. I don't want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat.
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I had one girl tell me last night that I'm the greatest thing ever, that she wants to aspire to be me. Just stuff like, 'You're my idol. I love you.' It's awesome. It's what it's all about.
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I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.
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It sounds trite to go after men who are nice but when you've been hurt a lot it becomes appealing.
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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
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I was always telling my family I wanted to become an actress, and I did.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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I think it's fun running with dogs. They're always so fit and fast.
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Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
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Actor's life is very long.
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It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
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Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn't know. So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He's not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball.
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Whether the Constitution allows indictment of a sitting president is debatable.
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When I was growing up, many of my relatives had never seen a black person before. Today, hundreds, maybe thousands of Africans live in Istanbul's old city alone. It's hard to imagine their lives in their human totality.
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The boundless capacity of the African American spirit in this country to say Hallelujah anyhow, to use our joy as a weapon, to use our creativity as a weapon, to use our moral clarity and our deep experience as a weapon not just to save Black people but to save all of these people.
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I'm not a fast writer at all. I come empty and wait upon the Lord. So it really is all a waiting process, a patient process.
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I've always slightly envied other actors I know who have different reputations. I think, 'God, you don't get people coming up to you, going, 'Hey!' - because they're scared of you.'
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There is no such thing as a black middle class.
