"Marcus Garvey was one of the first advocates of Black Power, and is still today the greatest spokesman ever to have been produced by the movement of Black Consciousness...He spoke to all Africans on the earth, whether they lived in Africa, South America, the West Indies or North America, and he made Blacks aware of their strength when united."

-- Walter Rodney

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“I've always kind of ripped from real life to some degree or at least how I'm feeling in the moment. In fact, maybe that's really it. In anything I've ever written, all the characters sound like me, which I don't think is a bad thing.”
“Well, you know, News Corp is the only real media global - that has a global presence that's involved in TV production, in movies, in publishing, in newspapers, digital media, et cetera. So for a company like that to function, clearly it does not depend only on Rupert Murdoch or James Murdoch.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“When it comes down to it, at the end of the day, I need more out of my life and I need to push myself harder. And if at the end of the day I don't have it, then I don't have it, but at least I'm going to put myself out there. If I fail, I'm going to fail terrifically.”
“You can't just sit in a corner weeping or you'll die.”

Source : Elizabeth Wein (2013). “Rose Under Fire”, p.219, Egmont UK
“Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't. It's still your own film.”

Source : Interview with Briony Hanson, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2009.
“As lonely and sad as I am today, your return will cause a new birth in me.”
“For black politicians, civil rights organizations and white liberals to support the racist practices of the University of Michigan amounts to no less than a gross betrayal of the civil rights principles of our historic struggle from slavery to the final guarantee of constitutional rights to all Americans. Indeed, it was practices like those of the University of Michigan, but against blacks, that were the focal point of much of the civil rights movement.”
“We each have the kind of children we deserve.”

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