Dawoud Bey Quotes
I always wanted my photographs to challenge the status quo, to contest the kinds of images that existed in popular culture.
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I volunteer with School on Wheels in Los Angeles, and I also tutor with Koreh L.A.
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The 'Vanity Fair' article was interesting to do because it was the first time I ever really had the opportunity to be absolutely truthful with a reporter about every aspect of my life.
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Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?
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Rome will exist as long as the Coliseum does; when the Coliseum falls, so will Rome; when Rome falls, so will the world.
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Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.
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Mama is my chance to be a stand-up comedian. In my mind, it's my chance to be Chris Rock.
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Being an actor does make you aware of your age.
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Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
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I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
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I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk.
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I have never acted in one and I'm not at all interested to do so either.
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There is definitely that thing here a little where people are like 'Oh that Broadway girl has come to Nashville' and I'm like 'Listen you guys, I was singing country before I even got a Broadway show. And I'm from Kentucky.'
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All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn't have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.
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When I was about 8 or 9, I lived in New Jersey with my mother and we were seven deep in one bedroom and sometimes we didn't have electricity.
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Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'
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Ironically, xenophobic nationalists are utilizing the benefits of globalization.
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I'm concerned a little bit with the culture of celebrating the fundraise. My dad taught me that when you borrow money it's the worst day of your life.
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A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then create a beautiful yet tangible solution that is loved by the users and the community at large. We create vessels in which life happens.
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I had started teaching because I love brainteasers. At some point, I had taken every standardized test out there - the SATs, the GREs, the GMATs, the MCATs. I just took them for fun.
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The world has done that already - possessed the Congo and pillaged her and dominated her and robbed her of agency and occupation. Love is something else, something rising and contagious and surprising. It isn't aware of itself. It isn't keeping track. It isn't something you sign for. It's endless and generous and enveloping. It's in the drums, in the voices, in the bodies of the wounded made suddenly whole, by the music, by each other, dancing.
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Contrary to the popular misconception, the actor is not necessarily a specialist in imitating or portraying what he knows about other people. On the contrary, the actor may simply be a person who's more willing than others to reveal some truths about himself.
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I think a lot of us are increasingly recognizing that the dominant culture is killing the planet.
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I grew up in a very religious family, so that was never going to leave me. I just accepted it over the years. Although I'm not religious myself, it is so much a part of me. It's a part of my history, a part of my tradition and my culture, so I don't want to just throw it away and leave it behind, because it's made me who I am today.
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I always wanted my photographs to challenge the status quo, to contest the kinds of images that existed in popular culture.
