Antoine Fuqua Quotes

I think that the dialogue between police officers and the black community has to get better, but not better in a way where, 'Oh, let's talk about it when something horrible happens.' The dialogue has to be going on consistently, every day.

Antoine Fuqua

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• Building codes are a good thing. People who throw rocks at inspectors are being naive. It's a lot like police officers; we want them around unless they stop us for a ticket. It's the same with inspectors.

  

  Dan Phillips
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• When in life do you get a black and white printout that says this is what you should do? It just doesn't happen.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Life
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• This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent.

  

  Floyd Abrams
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• I firmly believe, only because I've been doing this for so long, every show takes three years. 90% of them don't get three years. It just does. It takes a long time to build a community, build a friendship with your characters. It's hard for people to grasp on and make them care about you.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
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• 'Black Messiah' is a hell of a name for an album. It can easily be misunderstood. Many will think it's about religion. Some will jump to the conclusion that I'm calling myself a Black Messiah. For me, the title is about all of us. It's about the world. It's about an idea we can all aspire to. We should all aspire to be a Black Messiah.

  

  D'Angelo
  • World
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  • Myself

• The less I talk about being black, the better.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Black
  • Better
  • Talk

• In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Book
  • History
  • Black

• Any successful black person will have to face suspicion within his or her own community about his or her loyalty to other blacks.

  

  Randall Kennedy
  • Black
  • Community
  • Loyalty

• Saturdays are set for antique shops. Williamsburg in Brooklyn has some good ones. I get in there and start meddling around with dusty boxes and rickety, worn-in stuff. I like it when I find something with someone else's name on it.

  

  Valerie June
  • Good
  • Start
  • Name

• The only crime I'm guilty of is being a young black woman.

  

  Foxy Brown
  • Black
  • Woman
  • Guilty

• I did community theater in Georgia and called myself a ballet dancer.

  

  Laura Slade Wiggins
  • Community
  • Myself
  • Ballet

• I try to be very honest in my writing. It's amazing, though, to think that people are responding to what we do, but it's okay if they're responding in a positive way too, because I think just creating anything at all to put out there is a gift.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Writing
  • Amazing

• I love black lingerie and white shoes, and I love knives.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Love
  • Black
  • White

• Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me. Don't talk skin to me.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Black
  • Me
  • Baby

• I have always known that New Hampshire is a special place, with a community of people who come together to solve our common challenges.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • People
  • Together
  • Community

• Sometimes even when the book is over I don't know who's good and who's bad. It's really more interesting, I think, to write about gray characters than it is to write about black and white.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Good
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• It is because the fight against the harshest aspects of unrestricted capitalism is therefore a political problem and not an intellectual one that community action remains so essential.

  

  Barney Frank
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  • Action

• I always thought if I had a band it would have the energy and feel of early Police, since that's where my roots are, and then the harmonies of the Eagles, and the technique of King Crimson or something like that. Fast, up-tempo, beat-the-hell-out-of-the-drums, because that's my style. Energy, but sophistication, rhythmically and melodically.

  

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  • Up
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• Few books today are forgivable. Black on canvas, silence on the screen, an empty white sheet of paper are perhaps feasible.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Today
  • Black
  • Silence

• I got kicked out of all Gwinnett schools 'cause I got in a fight, and I had to go to military school.

  

  Offset Migos
  • School
  • Military

• I doubt the terrorists saw 9/11 as a teaching opportunity. And we're not really a culture geared to anything as humble as 'learning.' But I was disappointed in how quickly everyone wanted to get back to normal. It was as if we watched terrorism on TV for a while, then got bored and turned back to 'American Idol.'

  

  Jess Walter
  • American
  • Culture
  • Opportunity

• Anything worth achieving will always have obstacles in the way.

  

  Chuck Norris
  • Way
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• By the age of 24, I found myself convicted in prison in Egypt, being blacklisted from three countries in the world for attempting to overthrow their governments, being subjected to torture in Egyptian jails, and sentenced to five years as a prisoner of conscience.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • World
  • Age
  • Myself

• I think that the dialogue between police officers and the black community has to get better, but not better in a way where, 'Oh, let's talk about it when something horrible happens.' The dialogue has to be going on consistently, every day.

  

  Antoine Fuqua
  • Black
  • Community
  • Police