H. Rap Brown Quotes
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No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying.
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First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
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When I first put out music, people didn't know what I looked like. They called it a new type of something; they couldn't put a genre on it - it was where indie and urban kind of meet in the middle. I thought that was quite exciting.
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I was complexed and awkward that I was good for nothing and was always lying. I would lie to my school friends that I was a stud in my colony and to my colony friends that I was a stud in the school cricket and football teams, though I was in no team.
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Music was a big outlet for me. Being able to play an instrument and sing was definitely a good way for me to escape things I was dealing with: family issues, growing up, being a kid and not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.
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When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't have studied it even if I had heard of it.
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Death is always a reality, and life is incredibly short.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me.
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If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorizing rather than being real. Maybe every other actor would think that was terrible, I don't know. But it seems to have worked for me, so far.
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I love to write.
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If people want to think I'm an Indian prince, I don't want to dispel that notion.
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Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.
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The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.
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The English had hit upon a splendid joke. They intended to catch me or to bring me down.
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I've always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me.
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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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The mind must first reflect upon itself in order that it may frame a rule of Justice, and not be inclined to do to another what it would not have done to itself, nor refuse to another what it desires for itself. These two assuredly comprise the whole sphere of Justice.
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I think that music and visual arts can complement themselves nicely. They do different things - the music forces you into a different mood and perspective whilst the visual stuff can engage you in a more direct cognitive manner.
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Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
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As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
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Human relationships are patterned and cross-patterned and restricted and limited and de-limited and caged and freed again by the elaborate conventions, rules, and games we call Civilisation … the rules and the games are often absurd and farcical - sometimes they are tragic - yet we tacitly acknowledge that they are necessary.
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Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.
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You've got to stop dividing yourselves. You got to organize.
