Boots Riley (Raymond Lawrence Riley) Quotes

In high school, everybody rapped. You just pounded on the table.

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• There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • Art
  • Like
  • Modern

• I have always wanted to work with Lingusamy, as he is a master of commercial cinema. I have always admired his etching of female characters.

  

  Samantha Ruth Prabhu
  • Work
  • Always
  • Cinema

• Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • People
  • Loving
  • Preaching

• Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Pretty
  • Culture
  • You

• There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Good
  • Great
  • Driving

• I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Away
  • Pass

• I love doing every role I do!

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Love
  • Doing
  • Role

• Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Truth
  • Matter
  • Truth Is

• Every child matters. If we fail our children, we are bound to fail our present, our future, faith, cultures, and civilisations as well.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Children
  • Future
  • Faith

• Detroit is right now a new Mecca for Hip Hop.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Right
  • New
  • Now

• The point of college is more to acquire skills than to acquire domain knowledge. One of the skills that is going to be most necessary: you have to be able to read with rigor and write with clarity. You have to be able to communicate. To make an argument, whether it's in a written piece or in front of a group of people.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • College

• I do not diminish the incredible symbolic importance of a black man getting elected president. But my euphoria was a smart guy getting elected president. Maybe for the first time in my lifetime we had elected one of the thousand smartest Americans president.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Time
  • Guy
  • Man

• The truth is I am not a very hands-on political wife; I don't get involved in day-to-day Downing Street life. They don't need me interfering, but in the evening, we will talk about each other's day. I try to stay out of the Westminster village. There are times when I will be surprised and curious about what's been announced.

  

  Samantha Cameron
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Political

• My parents were hippies.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Parents
  • Were
  • Hippies

• And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you'd ever come across.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Heart
  • Guy
  • Faith

• Evil can and is overcome every minute of every day.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Day
  • Evil
  • Everyday

• On 'Glee,' the director can be like, 'Hey, your face is looking a little too intense here.' And they can show me the screen, and I can be like, 'I know exactly what to do here.'

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Know
  • Looking
  • Director

• I appreciate the idea that anybody would think of me as a star. But I'm really not career oriented in the sense that I want to be a star. It's not in me. It's not what I do. In fact, I'm amazed that I've even gotten this far.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Career
  • Star
  • Idea

• There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Nothing
  • Now
  • Without

• The first thing that Black Lives Matter had to do was remind people that racism existed in this country because when we had Obama, people thought we were post-racial. That was the debate. Is racism over? And very quickly, we understood that it was not over.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • People
  • Country
  • Black

• I've got to be high class... Which is sad, because I like bars.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • High
  • Like
  • Sad

• Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.

  

  Nagarjuna
  • Nature
  • Things
  • Nothing

• Why brilliant fashion-designers, a notoriously non-analytic breed,sometimes succeed in anticipating the shape of things to come better than professional predictors, is one of the most obscure questions in history; and, for the historian of culture, one of the most central.

  

  Eric Hobsbawm
  • Why
  • History
  • Culture

• In high school, everybody rapped. You just pounded on the table.

  

  Boots Riley
  • School
  • High
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