Douglas Hodge Quotes
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I'm usually late to the game on shows and watch them after they've aired. But I love 'House of Cards,' 'The Killing,' 'Orange Is the New Black,' loved 'True Detective,' and 'Arrested Development' when it was on. Also 'The Wire,' though I was way late to the game on that.
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When in life do you get a black and white printout that says this is what you should do? It just doesn't happen.
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One of my personal plights in this business is about playing 'The Sassy Black Girl.'
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In a completely integrated unit where you'd have white soldiers, particularly from southern states, serving under black noncommissioned officers or officers... I think you would have a problem definitely.
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George Bush doesn't care about black people.
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Black Sabbath invented heavy metal, in my opinion.
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We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.
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Like all rice, black rice is great at absorbing flavours, but it's just as happy to act as a satiny bed for a poached egg, say, if you want to keep things simple.
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All these police treating our people wrong, man. Black lives matter, but we got fans of all different colors, so all lives matter.
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After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job.
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I wanted to inspire people not to work under a bamboo ceiling. Whatever you are - yellow, black, white, brown - you don't have to allow your skin to define who you are or how you operate your business. There's not one face to anything.
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We did a play of 'Frog and Toad' at my elementary school. And I'm not sure if this is part of the book or it was something that we made up on our own, but I auditioned to play the black hole, which somehow makes sense to me.
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Black Rock gives us all a chance to heal, to become ourselves.
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One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and princes and speaking black verse, and bestriding the landscape of England was nothing but a preparation for sitting in the captain's chair of the Enterprise.
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In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.
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One of the things that I like about 'Narcos' is that not only Pablo but with all the characters - this is not a black and white show. This is not a regular American cop show where two cool cops go to save a country from a bad guy. All the characters are very complex.
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I'm not familiar particularly with Hillary Clinton's neighborhood, but I wish people were a little bit more curious about what we call privilege and about why it's there. Black people in this country have no choice but to be curious. We have to know. I wish folks would do a little bit more investigation.
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I believe black characters in fiction are still revolutionary, given our long history of erasure.
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She (Mariah Carey) could not fuck more black rappers. Oh, yeah. If your name is 'Puff' or 'Daddy,' she'll fuck you.
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I've got plenty of quirks. I go to an office early in the morning. Early in the morning is really good writing time. I take anywhere between six to eight showers a day. I'm not exaggerating. I'm not a germaphobe: it's all about a fresh start.
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I'm very free-spirited.
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Like, my house has a nice view, because, you know, I was on 'Friends.'
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Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? - Through whose blood am I to wade ?
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The next Bond ought to be a woman or, at least, a black actor.
