Douglas Wilder Quotes
Certain black leaders would believe that you have to go through their prism: 'If I lay my hand on you, you're OK.' So many people have made a living off of the pimping of race.
Quotes to Explore
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Nothing improves your confidence and brings a team together more than winning a cup.
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I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.
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I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.
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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
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The problem of the minimum dwelling is that of establishing the elementary minimum of space, air, light, and heat required by man in order that he be able to fully develop his life functions without experiencing limitations due to his dwelling, i.e. a minimum modus vivendi in place of a modus non moriendi.
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A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
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I always knew I wanted to make my own way; I never wanted to be dependent on my father.
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Plus, I am paranoid by nature. I need to be in control.
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I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.
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For me, it's very offensive when I notice that it's all about my appearance, how I look, that a man doesn't care who I am.
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As a musician usually music is your way out.
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I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.
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I haven't chosen any party yet because people choose parties when they get older. When it's time, I'll look, and if I can't find one to join, I'll make another party.
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I've made it my mission to make movies starring African American actors and about the African American experience and put them in the mainstream. They're very universal stories I've told - every movie I've done.
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I think the only safe medium are books, because people like to hold books in their hand.
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From my side, there was no acceptance to this fact that I am any less than anyone around me. So there was a certain discomfort that I felt growing up that I am not seen as I want to be seen as.
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Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.
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Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgotten.
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I've never understood musicians who don't enjoy doing promotional interviews. I just can't believe it. I always think, 'Your life must have been so brilliant before you were in a band.'
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People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and that they'd much rather do other kinds of things. But most people are afraid of rejection.
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Certain black leaders would believe that you have to go through their prism: 'If I lay my hand on you, you're OK.' So many people have made a living off of the pimping of race.
