Chad Hugo Quotes

I grew up around hip-hop so I didn't think it was about being cool or being black or being white or whatever.

Chad Hugo N.E.R.D.

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• I am a human being. When you are frustrated, you do cry. It's more than once that I cried.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Human
  • Cry
  • Frustrated

• I am a beneficiary of the American people's generosity, and I hope we can have comprehensive immigration legislation that allows this country to continue to be enriched by those who were not born here.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • People
  • American
  • Immigration

• I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.

  

  Eden Ahbez
  • Earth
  • Heaven
  • Wind

• My dream part would be to play Mitt Romney's sarcastic black maid. We could call it 'Mammy & Me.'

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Dream
  • Black
  • Me

• Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be published. You had to be great. Now you can be good. Mediocre. And that's good.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Time
  • World
  • Good

• Jack Black is so funny! On and off screen, like, he would make you laugh every day. He's hilarious.

  

  Caitlin Hale
  • Black
  • Funny
  • Day

• The reason I collaborate with Louis Vuitton is that Louis Vuitton is number one in the world, and I am honored to work with them.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Work
  • Collaborate
  • Louis Vuitton

• When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Boy
  • Writer
  • Little

• You can't believe everything you read. I am only six foot three, by the way.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Believe
  • Read

• We pushed our first record, 'Boomerang,' to different labels, but it was hard for them to see though the 'white guys singing R&B' thing.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Different
  • Singing
  • See

• The pilots I did test for, I was the only black actor testing against white actors for parts that were written white.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Black
  • Actor
  • Test

• I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Walk
  • Slow
  • Backwards

• I am drawn to those parts; I like the tough girls because they are not tough. It's a veil; it's a disguise. It's defenses. At the core, everybody is human, everybody is fragile, everybody is terrified, and the fear is what propels you to be tough.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Girls
  • Disguise
  • Fragile

• To ask if I am mischievous is the understatement of all time.

  

  Malcolm Gets
  • Mischievous
  • Understatement

• I'm just an actor. I am nothing special.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Actor

• My basics are black, white, or neutral, and I'll wear a ton of jewelry or carry a brightly colored bag.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Black
  • Jewelry
  • Bag

• I am ably balancing big and small films. With every big film I do, I try to take up films that are high on content and small on budget.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • High
  • Small
  • Films

• The black church will accept anybody.

  

  James McBride
  • Black
  • Church

• Hey, you know something people? I'm not black,But there's a whole lots a times I wish I could say I'm not white.

  

  Frank Zappa
  • People
  • Black
  • Wish

• Why do I need I.D. to get I.D.? If I had I.D. I wouldn't need I.D.

  

  Yasiin Bey Black Star
  • Needs
  • Rap
  • Hip Hop

• I went to a Steiner School, which is very small and nurturing and creative, so I felt like I was in an environment where I could mature. There was less of the clique-y stuff, which can really make high school a living hell for a lot of people, going on, so I was very similar then to who I am now. I'm still a dork.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • School
  • Small
  • Environment

• I'd been making music that was intended to be like painting, in the sense that it's environmental, without the customary narrative and episodic quality that music normally has. I called this 'ambient music.' But at the same time I was trying to make visual art become more like music, in that it changed the way that music changes.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Time
  • Music
  • Trying

• I grew up around hip-hop so I didn't think it was about being cool or being black or being white or whatever.

  

  Chad Hugo N.E.R.D.
  • Black
  • White
  • Hip Hop