"Malcolm X is a person who has inspired - he has been the muse of several generations of black cultural workers, artists, poets, playwrights."

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Source : Source: historynewsnetwork.org

Manning Marable

#Artist Quotes #Black Quotes #Generations Quotes

“I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.”
“To me, trying to achieve the balance is when you become good: when you have enough technique to be able to play what is that you want, but also when you can refine what you want to communicate to people. As a younger person, it wasn't something I thought about so much.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The right to private judgment is the crown jewel of humanity, and for any person or institution to dare to come between the soul and God is a blasphemous impertinence and a defamation of the crown rights of the Son of God.”
“The making of art is a profoundly social activity, even if itâ€™s one-on-one with some sort of ideal reader who doesnâ€™t exist.”
“History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.”
“Being holy . . . does not mean being perfect but being whole; it does not mean being exceptionally religious or being religious at all; it means being liberated from religiosity and religious pietism of any sort; it does not mean being morally better, it meas being exemplary; it does not mean being godly, but rather being truly human.”
“I dreamed of doing stuff like Will Smith and films on a big scale.”

Source : "Battle: Los Angeles/ Cory Hardrict Interview". Interview with Wilson Morales, www.blackfilm.com. March 7, 2011.
“Nobody understands me, I'm really sensitive.”

Source : "Iggy's Trail of Destruction". Rolling Stone Interview, November 19, 2003.

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