H. Rap Brown Quotes
Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.
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I don't know how I did it, but I worked 7 days a week.
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By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.
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I had been playing really interesting roles before I got great roles. Little ones - 'The Crying Game' I loved working on, and then 'Bird,' 'Ghost Dog,' so many films.
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I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
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I feel like I missed a whole period of my childhood because I had a bunch of stressful things happen to me when I was like 17, 18, when people usually feel the most free in life, like going to college and like anything is possible.
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I'm mostly drawn to narratives that are difficult for me to visualize.
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If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
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I have had wrinkles on my forehead and my smile line since I was a kid. I see them in my own kids. I know what they're going to look like. So it's kind of like that's my personality. I feel the older you get, too, the more confident you become just in your own skin.
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I'm a big 'American Idol' watcher, and sometimes I like to watch 'America's Got Talent.' Those are big, corny admissions, but sometimes it's so fun to see those kids really sing their hearts out.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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When you go all over the world for work, your dream vacation is your bedroom.
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If you don't find time to meditate and get all that negative out, and if you don't have the right people being positive around you, this is a very scary job to have if you don't learn how to control your fear.
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
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I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.
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Wild fish are under threat of extinction because they're hunted to feed us. Yet land animals that we farm are under no threat of extinction. Shifting from hunting fish to farming fish - where the farmers have the incentive to keep their stocks healthy - could do a tremendous amount of good for wild fish.
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Pimenton gets its intense flavor because it is dried over wood smoke. You can try hot, sweet or bittersweet, though sweet is probably the most commonly used.
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In the language of politics, there is only one translation for the phrase 'hope and change,' to wit: 'big, fat government.'
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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.
