Arthur Jafa Quotes
To me, not every black filmmaker who is making black films is trying to make black cinema.
Arthur Jafa
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Jack Black is so funny! On and off screen, like, he would make you laugh every day. He's hilarious.
Caitlin Hale
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In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma - would someday be called Congressman.
J. C. Watts
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I prefer doing feature films.
Taraji P. Henson
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One of my favorite - well, my favorite, favorite, absolute favorite event to go to is Alfre Woodard has a party that I call the blacktress party. It's, like, black actresses that either have been nominated for an Oscar or should have been, and it sort of is just a night where we all get in a room and we get to celebrate each other.
Gabourey Sidibe
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I'd spend every summer in Longview on my grandfather's farm. It was a tiny little town divided by a river, which was the segregation line: that side white, this side black. And meanwhile, I lived in Compton - basically, another whole world sealed into 10 square blocks. It's interesting how insular an environment can be.
Forest Whitaker
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In the depths of the moor, the peat may be seen riven like floes of ice, and the rifts are sometimes twelve to fourteen feet deep, cut through black vegetable matter, the product of decay of plants through countless generations.
Sabine Baring-Gould
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I happen to think that conservatism, when properly applied to the 21st century, could actually help everybody. And the message of Trump's campaign was obviously not super-appealing to Latino Americans, black Americans and so forth. That really bothered me.
J. D. Vance
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Whenever I've seen shows or films set here, they just don't feel like the real Nashville to me.
Callie Khouri
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I love black lingerie and white shoes, and I love knives.
Carine Roitfeld
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If white people need colleges to furnish teachers, ministers, lawyers, and doctors, do black people need nothing of the sort?
W. E. B. Du Bois
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It's very hard to be black in this country and hate America. It's really hard to live like that. I would actually argue it's impossible to fully see yourself.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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A lot of people have called me the black Bette Midler, and I regard that as a compliment.
Vesta Williams
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Shaming is powerful and useful. I'm living in New York, and my instinct is that, after the Black Lives Matter protests, which were organized on social media, the chance of there being another Eric Garner, choked to death in New York by an NYPD officer, has diminished.
Jon Ronson
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I have the feeling of being a very small item on this planet, and literature enables me to express that.
J. M. G. Le Clezio
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Attachment parenting demands not just certain actions you take with your baby but also certain emotional states to accompany those actions.
Hanna Rosin
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Putting is an art. When you're not feeling confident on the greens, it will affect the rest of your game.
David Hearn
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When I was travelling in Rajasthan people were waving hands, and it felt like I was visiting my own constituency.
Kamla Persad-Bissessar
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To me, not every black filmmaker who is making black films is trying to make black cinema.
Arthur Jafa
