Haile Gerima Quotes
Tarantino is a spoiled little white kid. He can do any movie he wants and nobody can do anything about it.
Quotes to Explore
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Nothing is unfilmable.
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I feel pressure, but my emotions just don't show that much in my face.
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I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.
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If you put up a blog, people can cut out the middle man and get material to you. Which is really helpful because a lot of time there's really cool stuff out there that we just don't see. Because, y'know, the agent is acting in our best interest, but it does sometimes prevent some of the good stuff from getting through.
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With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?
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I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men's lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community.
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We are creating the new Atlanta, along with Rich Homie Quan and Young Thug. We bring the spaghetti, put it in the bowl, mix it together, and we make the new Atlanta.
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Well did graduate summa cum laude from Fordham University.
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Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.
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I always tell people I want to see the world through His eyes, and I want people to see Him in me.
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Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.
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I'm all about a flat shoe. It takes a lot to get me into a heel!
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In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.
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I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.
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I don't want to collect Indian art, though pots and beadwork and blankets made by Indians remain the most beautiful art objects in the American West, in my opinion.
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People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
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The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.
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My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous jobs. He wanted to be a painter, but then he also wrote science-fiction novels in his spare time.
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Beware of privilege. It stinks of rotten rotten fish heads, many of which were lapping the shore beneath the jetties.
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What we, as black people, need to do is we need to worry about our education.
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I could sing in English before I could understand it because I phonetically learned it from the musicals.
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I couldn't stand still at a desk for another year. I wanted to go out there and make films.
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I'm very independent, probably quite selfish, and like being able to disappear at the drop of a hat without having to explain myself - most men would find that a pain, wouldn't they?
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Tarantino is a spoiled little white kid. He can do any movie he wants and nobody can do anything about it.
