Ellen Schreiber Quotes
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We believe it is comprehensive international sanctions against the white regime that will save us from the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of South Africans, black and white.
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I take it seriously that it's a privilege and honor to be a role model to young girls, both black and white. It's not something I take lightly.
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I really wanted Michael Jackson to be in the first Men in Black, but he didn't want to be considered as an alien!
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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.
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After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job.
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I thought our community should have a deep dialogue to make black America better. I believe if we make black America better, we make all of America better.
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I was 26 when I went to my first acting class. I'm naturally quite shy. I'm a quite private person. There's this really strange acting class in New York called Black Nexxus. For someone who's slightly shy or self-conscious, it's the most frightening thing you can do.
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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.
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I have a very diverse crowd from old, young, black, white, straight, gay. It's a little bit of everybody.
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Poitier opened the doors to so many artists, not just black artists. There is a line that goes from black to Latin to Asian with regards to roles.
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I started doing martial arts when I was about 7, and I got my second degree black belt when I was 19. So I have my second degree black belt, but I've never used it, and I had to stop when I got 'Instant Star' because I couldn't train.
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As far as stand-ups go, I always loved Richard Pryor, Chris Rock, and Sinbad. Basically, I love black comedians because they're the funniest. I wish I were a black comedian, actually.
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My favorite outfit is baggy black corduroy pants and a baggy T-shirt.
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There is not much good spending twelve hours a day in a black hole in the ground all your life long if there’s nothing there, no secret, no treasure, nothing hidden.
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Remember, this country had a man named J. Edgar Hoover, whose job it was to destroy the credibility of any black man coming up.
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Lonely dissent doesn't feel like going to school dressed in black. It feels like going to school wearing a clown suit.
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For black and brown people, caring for ourselves and each other is not a neutral act. It is a necessary and radical part of the struggle to create a more just society. Our healing and survival are essential to the fight.
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I'm against an all-white anything or an all-black anything.
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Black history is part of American history, and it should be treated as such.
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[...] the only folks who kill black folks any more are black folks. [...] black folks kill more black folks than the KKK ever did.
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The assumption is simply that I hit on all the things I've hit on so far by accident, that my talent is just this raw thing that pours out of me, and then white people feel like they have to come in and contain it, refine it, and bring it to the place where it can been released.
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I have a theater background, so I like finding beats, working on things and having rehearsal.
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My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in academia.
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Black is a girl's best friend.
