Black Flag Quotes
-
Most Americans are very cool people.
-
You don't make me feel like you used to. That's why I'm leaving That's why people leave each other They come to their senses and get selfish again.
-
The material you work with is that which you will come to resemble. That which you work against will always work against you, including yourself.
-
There's nothing new about the government protecting corporations and calling it the freeing of the world or bringing democracy to bereft nations.
-
Putting out the things that I like best hasn't been the easiest way to run a label, and it still isn't because it requires finding an audience for each record.
-
I have been restless for as long as I can remember.
-
In the summer of '84, you just couldn't escape the Born in the USA record.
-
I just get things done instead of talking about getting them done. I don't go out and party. I don't smoke, drink or do drugs and I'm not married, that leaves a lot of time for my work.
-
I think, to a great degree, we humans still divide ourselves into two species, even though we are monotypic. There are males and females. We see them as different and not equal.
-
I am talking about ultimate deceit. I am talking about unparalleled treachery. Bottomless lies. Depths that are seen that are previously unimaginable. Darkness and shattering despair that could break bones. Paranoia and horror that could stop the heart cold. All inflicted on one's self by one's self. The soul turns schizophrenic and goes hopelessly insane.
-
I was never told to "Get up, get out there, get a job." It was never a thing either parent ever said I had to do. It was what I wanted to do. I think I was very interested in being away from them as much as possible. Employment was great for that.
-
No one should die when they're 50.
-
Pride is not a word or sentiment I can ascribe to anything I have done or do. As far as regret, it is a luxury I can not afford. Anything I did, that was bad or wrong or regretful, I stand accused, I am guilty and I'm ready to serve my time.
-
It's hard to get along with people. As much as you try to like them and accept them as individuals, it becomes difficult because they keep getting out of line and wasting your time.
-
Luckily for me, I genuinely like my audience. They really are a good bunch.
-
I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.
-
Marriage equality is a term so ridiculous on its face that when you hear it mentioned, you would think you were in Riyadh. Years from now, perhaps we can lose the equality part, the same-sex part and call it what it is - marriage.
-
It's difficult for me to be around anyone for longer than an hour. Love, death, elation, sorrow, I just don't care all that much about any of it. I am at this point, more of an observer/journalist.
-
I think that one of the hardest things in the world to be is a black male. I mean everyone hates your guts. White men are afraid of you. White women are afraid of you. The cops hate you. The government wants you dead. Your own people want to shoot you for what you got. You just can't get over it. And even if you are able to get over it you're forced to do it on the white guy's terms.
-
It's always been impressive to me when someone can really do what they want onstage. The audience has confidence in the performer and the performer has confidence in the crowd.
-
You must never lower yourself to being a person you don't like.
-
The opportunity to write for the 'L.A. Weekly' has been one of the better breaks that has come my way in a long time.
-
Smart people make good choices. They dig science and say 'no' to the invasion of sovereign nations for the pleasure of corporations.
-
When you are young, there is so much ahead of you, it's like the Saharan desert. You can't even see across it.