Donald Glover Quotes

Black culture is a fight. We want to hold on to what we are, but sometimes the things that we are can be totally negative. You have to think: can't we try something new and not be seen as suspect?

Donald Glover

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• We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.

  

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• Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming.

  

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• I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.

  

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• In the Indian film industry, especially those of us who are in mainstream cinema, we invariably play a typical hero's role. More often than not, we cater to the public perception. However, there is a latent desire in most actors to do a role where you can go all out and experiment.

  

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• When we were growing up, women in their late 40s generally didn't dye their hair.

  

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• We are in favor of greater free markets.

  

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• When I was younger, I thought about retiring.

  

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• When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book.

  

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• Black culture is a fight. We want to hold on to what we are, but sometimes the things that we are can be totally negative. You have to think: can't we try something new and not be seen as suspect?

  

  Donald Glover
  • Black
  • Culture