Haile Gerima Quotes
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I don't believe in luck. ... It's persistence, hard work, and not forgetting your dream.
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It’s as much a writer’s concern, who is responsible to his readers for all the books written before him as well as those which will be written after him.
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If we are to reach certainty and true autonomy of realization, we need to be willing to be heretics. What's more, we need to become universal heretics, not believing anything that we do not know from direct experience, beyond stories, beyond hearsay, and even beyond the mind.
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Some women have a weakness for shoes... I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books.
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People find a sense of being, a sense of worth and substance being associated with land. Association with final roots gives us not only a history but proclaims us heirs to a future.
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A long association-prolonged human contact, when a man and woman live together-this ends up producing a sort of rot, a poison.
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Some of the subject matter is a little less weighty. When we were writing for Mr. Show, we were talking about how is this going to stand up to the test of time. Every little piece had to be this brilliant comedy jewel.
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She remembered how she had felt cleaning out her father's clothes, wanting at once to hold on to every dirty handkerchief and musty page of sheet much, and yet wishing she were anywhere else on earth, free of it all.
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You are positive, creative and happy to the degree to which you eliminate negative emotions from your life.
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Making ski racing fun and engaging for kids and families is an exciting opportunity and a real passion of mine.
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A true servant of Mary cannot be lost.
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I take no credit at all. This is a talented team with a real desire to follow a specific style of play.
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If you want to upgrade your circle of influence, it begins with upgrading yourself.
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What I'm trying to say is: it gets boring when nothing meaningful is discussed about it. It's the same thing when a woman poet writes about suffering - it's a "woman's tendency to depression and grief." It's not a human, universal tackling of something that exists in all of us. It's suddenly a "woman issue."
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And I don't see that popular measures, self-abnegation and democracy have done anything for Man but push him further into the mud. Currently, popularity endorses degraded novels, self-abnegation has filled the Southeast Asian jungles with stone idols and corpses, and democracy has given us inflation and income tax.
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If one does not like the crime, cruelty, injustice and violence of this society, he CAN do something about it.
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When the system does not recognize me I'm not devastated.
