Ishmael Reed Quotes
All art must be for the end of liberating the masses. A landscape is only good when it shows the oppressor hanging from a tree.
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In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.
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As feminism becomes more integrated into mainstream publications and conversation, I feel weary of an obsession of celebrity culture masquerading as activism or as conversation or action. It's clickbait.
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Even as our economy starts to pick up, and new jobs are created, there is a risk that young people in Britain won't get the chances they deserve because businesses will continue to look elsewhere.
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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures.
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I go to Buzzfeed and 'Huff Po,' IMDB, 'Deadline.' And then I just Google myself, like 'Aasif Mandvi in a hat,' and see what comes up.
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It's not what you achieve, it's what you overcome. That's what defines your career.
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Since Sandy Hook, I have sat back as a father and been mesmerized by the inability of the federal government to do anything substantively on gun safety.
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Russian Parliament today is a bunch of puppets that just fall in with the instructions from Kremlin.
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We would be silly to say that race issues don't exist in 2014.
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If Christ can die in a barn, I think the death of a human in a van is not so bad.
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From the time I was 16 to really up until turning 21, the roles were really, really few and far between. I had people say that I just wasn't a good singer. They didn't know what to do with me; I would never fit in any markets. I almost quit acting altogether.
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Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it's just a daisy in a jelly glass.
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Just because you know I had no other choice doesn't make the anger go away. I understand that. But you're a man now. You can put away these childish things.
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The great thing about running is that you can get away to your own thoughts and get in a little bubble.
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I have the full confidence of the coach, and that's extremely important to me.
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If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England - you couldn't have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.
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Look at ISIS - without the Internet, they wouldn't exist in the same form. The Internet didn't create them, but the Internet facilitates them. And as we know from history, the facilitation is more dangerous than the cause, because the cause can be dealt with, but the facilitation is elusive.
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We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.
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I went to this little performing arts school in downtown Phoenix. You had to dance or act, and everyone sang in choir. I started out playing the saxophone, but I always wanted to be in an orchestra. That was a dream as a kid, and there aren't a lot of saxophones in an orchestra.
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It's my job, but I think it is too much.
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The Choice, after all, is ours to make.
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All art must be for the end of liberating the masses. A landscape is only good when it shows the oppressor hanging from a tree.
