Philip Emeagwali Quotes
During the week that I arrived in the United States, I saw an airport, used a telephone, used a library, talked with a scientist, and was shown a computer for the first time in my life.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.
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I think that black people, to a degree, need to have a certain level of dexterity. If we want to be at the highest level of whatever our field is, we have to be able to navigate both worlds. We all just know that you gotta be able to put that suit on and have a conversation with people that don't look like you or your family.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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It is easy to get an interesting loop to happen, but it becomes a collage when the song and loop are constantly changing.
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People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.
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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
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You can't get anywhere without the people who have come into your life.
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There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before.
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What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.
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Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.
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We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal.
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Of course I wanted an agent from the time I was like 5, but my mother was like, 'No, you're going to be normal, you're going to go to school, you're going to get good grades, you're going to play soccer, and if you do well, if you keep your grades up, you can do one community-theater show a year.'
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I remember immediately - immediately - feeling like, 'I don't want to play 'We Are Young' when I'm 35. I don't want to be defined by this.'
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Also, I walk and hike in several different nearby parks near our home several early mornings a week.
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No matter how much money you make, no matter how famous you are, you're not above going outside and cutting trees. I do it all the time.
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My voice has a lot of character and kind of doesn't sound like a lot of people's.
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Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
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One thing I really want to explore is writing.
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When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except the ego. They can no longer feel or sense their humanity - what they share with other human beings, or even with other life forms on the planet. They are so identified with concepts in their minds that other human beings become concepts as well.
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During the week that I arrived in the United States, I saw an airport, used a telephone, used a library, talked with a scientist, and was shown a computer for the first time in my life.
