"To me, not every black filmmaker who is making black films is trying to make black cinema."

“She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).”

“By all means examine the games of the great chess players, but don't swallow them whole. Their games are valuable not for their separate moves, but for their vision of chess, their way of thinking.”

“Building prisons to fight crime is like building cemeteries to fight disease.”

“I'm full of admiration for the Queen. She's done a fantastic job. She has had an awful lot of blocks along the road and has overcome them all. I'm anything but an antimonarchist.”

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“Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me'.”

“As a black actress, all I was offered in British film was the best friend role, whereas in TV I was offered a whole spectrum of parts.”

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“If you ever find that you only have an hour to live .... spend it with a liberal and it will seem like a year.”

“It's been amazing, the number of commercials that I've done, starting back in 1968. It must be 8,000.”