Foxy Brown Quotes
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When I went to drama school, I knew I was at least as talented as other students, but because I was a black man and I wasn't pretty, I knew I would have to work my butt off to be the best that I would be, and to be noticed.
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I get carded for soda, you know, when I go to the supermarket. I mean, they card me for everything. You know, I can't even get through a hand of black jack without getting carded, like, five times.
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I just see religious freedom, as a category, as just being a black hole.
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I'm a TV junkie, so it's hard to choose just one. Currently I'm a slave to 'Black Sails,' 'Vikings,' 'Game of Thrones' and 'The Mindy Project.'
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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Black-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word means.
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Leather pants are my guilty fashion pleasure. I have at least 10 pairs in navy, red, white, dusty pink, grey, suede and black.
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Conrad Ludlow was an extraordinary partner... We just called him the greatest partner because he just knew what a woman's balance was.
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In a completely integrated unit where you'd have white soldiers, particularly from southern states, serving under black noncommissioned officers or officers... I think you would have a problem definitely.
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College was where I got to actually experience the difference between black and white.
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I'd hopefully work through all my issues with men first so then I'd be okay being with a woman.
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My dream part would be to play Mitt Romney's sarcastic black maid. We could call it 'Mammy & Me.'
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There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identity and slavery and North Africa, but there simply is no American history before black people.
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Being Latina for me is also being a strong woman.
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Segregation, in a sense, helped create and maintain black solidarity.
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Priority is placed on the chastity of women. You can be corrupt, or a murderer and still hold your head up high on the street without problems, whereas if there are any suspicions of your chastity and moral behaviour as a woman, you get lynched.
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It's an ongoing joke that a black man is always the first one to get killed in movies.
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Do I feel that white directors have to tell only white stories? No. Do I feel that black filmmakers should only tell stories about black people? No. If we say that, then that means Asian people cannot write about anybody but Asians. I don't think a woman should only write about women.
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We've seen more reform in the last year than we've seen in decades, and we haven't spent a dime yet. It's staggering how the Recovery Act is driving change.
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Journalism, spooked by rumors of its own obsolescence, has stopped believing in itself. Groans of doom alternate with panicked happy talk.
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My faith is not identified by my title. My faith is identified by how I live. Wearing the uniform is not the same as playing the game.
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I thought I would be a dramatic actor - everyone starts that way.
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It's the worst noise in the world: me analyzing the reasons for making a podcast about U2.
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The only crime I'm guilty of is being a young black woman.
