Arthur Jafa Quotes
I have a very simple mantra and it's this: I want to make black cinema with the power, beauty, and alienation of black music. That's my big goal. The larger preoccupation is how do we force cinema to respond to the existential, political, and spiritual dimensions of who we are as a people.
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A reciprocal of a fraction is found by flipping it upside down. If you want the reciprocal of a mixed number or a whole number, just convert it to an improper fraction, and then flip it!
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You mustn't upstage the bride.
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It's my deepest interest as an actor: I love discovering how human beings work, how their flaws reveal themselves - how to learn and grow from that - and how characters teach me things as a woman and as a parent.
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The Masters is a sell-out annually, and even the scalpers mind their manners.
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Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal.
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A lot of our leadership has become acutely aware of speaking more fairly, of speaking more balanced, of recognizing that hate speech in any form, even if it comes out of emotional anger, is dangerous.
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I don't think anyone who has been to Africa comes away untouched by the place. You see a lot of beauty and optimism, but you also come away with an awareness of the huge gulf between what most of us have and what most of them have to make do with. Then, every now and then, a famine or a war makes everything a hundred times worse.
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A European army must protect the continent from two sides, from the east and from the south, in terms of protecting against terrorism and migration.
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I enjoy every role I do.
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I tried my hand at photography and worked with a studio for six months.
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I don't like when I look too cluttered.
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Sand dunes are almost like ready-made buildings in a way. All we need to do is solidify the parts that we need to be solid, and then excavate the sand, and we have our architecture. We can either excavate it by hand, or we can have the wind excavate it for us.
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I write exactly as I speak, so therefore I would not say any writer influenced me at all.
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That is one dark house your God lives in, man. Alec shook his head. You can keep your Age of Faith. Whyn’t you find somebody to worship who isn’t a shracking psychopath?
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Sometimes, you feel like you've sold your soul. But if I win the lottery, I'm going to buy it back.
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It doesn't matter what background you come from; it doesn't matter what your circumstances are - you can survive.
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Think about a guy like Bob Mitchum, with his kind of chest gut not defining itself one way or the other. Was there anybody tougher? Lee Marvin was a marine sniper during the Second World War. They had this sense of themselves, and they had this product of being a man in a masculine way.
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The music technology scene is changing so fast it's hard to keep up.
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'Peter Pan' makes 'Black Watch' and 'The Bacchae' look like a walk in the park.
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In music, in the sea, in a flower, in a leaf, in an act of kindness... I see what people call God in all these things.
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That's the purpose of old age... To give us a breathing space before we die, in which to see why we did what we did.
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I have a very simple mantra and it's this: I want to make black cinema with the power, beauty, and alienation of black music. That's my big goal. The larger preoccupation is how do we force cinema to respond to the existential, political, and spiritual dimensions of who we are as a people.
