Langston Hughes Quotes
We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
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The ability and desire to transform the mundane materials at hand that we both bring into the collaboration well beyond the sum total of the parts - to birth a new baby neither of us could claim single parentage of.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies.
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I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time.
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It was my very good fortune to find a mentor, Clay Felker, who started my career at the 'New York Magazine' as a freelance writer when I had to quit my job at the 'Herald Tribune' to stay home with my young daughter.
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I have a pair of Rodarte leggings. They're crazy, but I wore them for one day, and then by the end of the day they weren't tearing, but they were getting a little loose.
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I haven't done as many films as I would have liked.
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I don't have a goal but I just want to work on movies that I really like.
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I think my parents see my life now as very conservative.
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When you go all over the world for work, your dream vacation is your bedroom.
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I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.
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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
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We never did these kinds of loans that really started this mess, the subprime loans. We just never got into that business. We were enticed a lot of times to do so by a lot of Wall Street-type players, but I, frankly, never understood some of this stuff.
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In the end, crime doesn't pay.
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Fat Joe is signed to Fat Joe. I have a distribution deal for my label. I'm independent. I'm very happy with that.
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I think riots happen when communities are under pressure for long periods of time. That's not a mistake.
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I have to be honest - I don't love guns.
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When you get to 15 and most of your teachers are priests, there's bound to be a conflict.
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I'm very attached to movie theaters and I love going to them. Nothing will ever replace that. It's very romantic and beautiful. I used to want to live inside of one, with a bathtub, a bike and a bed, and just watch movies.
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I'm having a really hard time with this retirement thing and not having wrestling.
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Not all my work features black actors. I mean, it's funny: someone was reading back to me all the languages that have appeared in my films, whether they were shorts or features. They span Arabic, French, Mandarin, Cantonese - all kinds of languages. I think it's really cool.
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In this movie they took them up in space. They're floating around and doing zero gravity stuff. Well, they had to do it all on wires. All the wires had to be painted black against this black background. If you didn't light it properly you could see the wires. Drove them crazy!
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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
