Brian Tyree Henry Quotes
I think that Atlanta has this huge well of black culture and openness to share all the things that we have made there.
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When I went to drama school, I knew I was at least as talented as other students, but because I was a black man and I wasn't pretty, I knew I would have to work my butt off to be the best that I would be, and to be noticed.
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The essential relationship across American history between black people and white people is one of exploitation and one of plunder. This is not, you know, necessarily about, you know, whether you're a good person or not or whether you see black people, you know, on the street, and you're willing to shake their hands and be polite.
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I read the Steve Jobs book, and that kind of changed everything. I've been, like, an Apple geek my whole life and have always seen him as a hero. But reading the book, and learning about how he built the company, and maintaining that corporate culture and all that, I think that influenced me a lot.
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I just see religious freedom, as a category, as just being a black hole.
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I've been lucky enough to work in pop culture, especially with people right before they popped.
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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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The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
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But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down.
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The economic dynamic in Zimbabwe is perversely robust: while ordinary people suffer, black-market dealers and people with foreign bank accounts prosper, making them powerful stakeholders in the perpetuation of devastating economic policies.
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Black Sabbath invented heavy metal, in my opinion.
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I don't think that acting is as youth-obsessed as the general culture. In acting, as you get older, you get better, and the parts you get improve, too. But that's only true for a man, not a woman.
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I love to drive in the Black Hills of Wyoming and South Dakota with Mount Rushmore as the central stop.
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We live in a culture that's been hijacked by the management consultant ethos. We want everything boiled down to a Power Point slide. We want metrics and 'show me the numbers.' That runs counter to the immensely complex nature of so many social, economic and political problems. You cannot devise an algorithm to fix them.
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The cartoon is a metaphor really for the fact that it's almost impossible in our celebrity obsessed culture to move around genres and sort of change you ideas, change your face, you know?
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When you consider the concept of vampirism, it is inherently part of a Western culture.
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To be black in the Baltimore of my youth was to be naked before the elements of the world.
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In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.
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English is my second language, but in Hong Kong, they don't know that I'm from China. They think I'm from Hollywood because all the films they see are from here. China and Hong Kong are very different places, but they're starting to merge. Still the culture is very different.
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I think the world of 'District 9' has a lot of race and oppression-based ideas that I would still like to explore in that world.
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Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.
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Color is definitely an important factor for me during all phases of producing a cover. I always start out with a loose idea of what I want to see when I'm doing my initial sketches. This choice can be informed by anything, but I usually tend to lean toward more simple color schemes... something with a very obvious push between warms and cools.
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All you can do is handle it, worst thing you can do is panic. Use it to your advantage, avoid insanity, manage to conquer ever obstacle, make impossible possible. Even when winning's illogical, losing is still far from optional.
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Let me say it diplomatically: Most religions are tribal to some degree.
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I think that Atlanta has this huge well of black culture and openness to share all the things that we have made there.
