Jesse Williams Quotes

I grew up in a really horrible school system, but my parents did not let that define how we function. They gave me more work at home from them than I ever got from school. To learn about the history of myself and my people, and that armors me.

Jesse Williams

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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.

Fat Joe
- Money
- Success
- Kind
There are roles out there and women out there that are fascinating to me, and there are things in our culture that I see that I want to express. It's my passion to express that.

Parker Posey
- Women
- Culture
- Passion
There are a million great books out there if you just go to Google. There's a lot to pull apart. A lot of crazy, unbelievable stuff that's all completely true. I get into little obsessions, and I read everything I can find on one thing, and then I move onto another.

Caitlin Kittredge
- Great
- True
- Crazy
The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.

Oriana Fallaci
- Up
- Culture
- Period
You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
- Pretty
- Man
- You
I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order.

J. G. Ballard
- Great
- Political
- Change