Black Quotes
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I went to Brunel University and very much wanted to go on to do a PhD in management, but then my acting career started to take off. In those days when you switched on the box there were hardly any brown or black faces.
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I was so beat down as a young person - being black, being gay, being unable to assimilate because I could never, ever pull off being butch.
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A lot of young black people in America, and even in Africa and Brazil, would say that they are telling their story, but most of the films are like application forms with the formulaic ideas of Hollywood.
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Clearly a black man's life is not worth a ham sandwich.
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After I left D.C. to join Black Flag, I felt I was in a band.
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London is completely unpredictable when it comes to weather. You'll start a scene, and it's a beautiful morning. You get there at 6 in the morning, set up, you start the scene, start shooting. Three hours later, it is pitch black and rainy.
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First and foremost, telling historical stories is very tricky because it is something that is known. It is not like you can tell a lie or change something that is written in black and white.
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If you look at shows like 'Def Comedy Jam' in its heyday, there were so many really funny, talented black comics that never would have gotten on that show because they just weren't doing comedy that fit that mold.
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Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude.
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One lady told me that before she saw 'Sounder' she didn't believe black people could love each other, have deep relationships in the same way as white people.
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Everywhere, people are beginning to question masculine notions of control, aggression and black-and-white thinking - and instead are favoring more empathetic, nurturing and collaborative approaches.
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If you read the memoirs of slave-owning families, you'd be hard pressed to find evidence of black people in the lives of the whites, even though for most of the time on the plantations black people outnumbered whites by a ratio of seven to one.
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In the rural South, 'Bubba' is like how people say 'dude' in California. It's a name for a regular Southern man. I know a Chinese Bubba, a black Bubba.
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I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white.
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I collect primarily ceramics but also black-and-white photography and some bits of contemporary.
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After 27 years, I walked out of my first one a few months ago. Black Sheep with Chris Farley.
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At some point in our lifetime, gay marriage won't be an issue, and everyone who stood against this civil right will look as outdated as George Wallace standing on the school steps keeping James Hood from entering the University of Alabama because he was black.
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Life is about choices. Some we regret, some were proud of. Some will haunt us forever. 'Black Rain' was very much about choices. The message - we are what we chose to be.
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This country is just that great that the opportunities are there for a Hispanic president, a black president or any other race for a president, yes.
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I see love in black and white. Passion in shades of “gris”. But when it comes to you and I, color is all I see.
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Anytime you see Beyonce, Jay Z, Kanye West. Anytime a young black person's doing good, that's motivation for everybody else. Anytime, anytime, it's motivation. Use that fuel to push you forward. That's what I did.
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One must respect black. Nothing prostitutes it.
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Black men struggle with masculinity so much. The idea that we must always be strong really presses us all down - it keeps us from growing.
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I think that black people making art, women making art, and certainly black women making art is a disruptive endeavor - and it's one that I enjoy extremely.
