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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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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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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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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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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I will, till the day I die, be an advocate for the d-word: diversity.
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I try to think of it not as writer's block, but a time where you just need to live life and experience things so you have something to write about.
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Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth.
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The way we've been neglecting to support our libraries throughout the country is a shame.
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When you're playing someone who drinks a lot, it's not that interesting to play that condition because as soon as you know that, you got all the information you're going to get from it. It's like hitting the same note on the piano over and over again.
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I had such a good time working with John Woo and John Travolta, and it was so professional. I want to work with people who are real professionals.
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The course of Nature is the art of God.
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All my favorite artists were pretty serious in the sense that their music was something I could sink my teeth into, from Peter Gabriel to U2 to these artists that made me want to read the lyrics and dig into it.
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I think being the girl of such a huge father figure, you want to be that tomboy... because you are so close to your dad.
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Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas.
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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.
