"With the groups who asked me to join them - like the Rolling Stones, Spirit, David Bowie, and Blood, Sweat & Tears - I said no right away because I was way too much into my own thing."

-- Shuggie Otis

#Blood Quotes #Sweat Quotes #Tears Quotes

“To seek out making films that are unique and insightful, boundary-pushing and genre-bending, and not films that fit into the neat, little boxes that people "want" (expect) women to be making. In some ways, I guess for me, any filmmaker should strive to be a good director first, regardless of their gender, race, sexual orientation etc.”
“FOr a while, I'd never had the opportunity to prove on TV that I could play the piano.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It's not the writer who determines how good she is anyway. Writers don't determine that. It's readers who determine that.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“There are chemists who spend their whole lives trying to find out what's in a lump of sugar. I want to know one thing. What is color?”
“I think my perspective is unique, and I want to make sure that perspective is memorialized and preserved.”

Source : "Darden promises book on Simpson, race issue". www.cnn.com. October 11, 1995.
“A goalies job is to stop pucks,.... Well yeah, thats part of it, but you know what else is?... Youre trying to deliver a message to your team that things are OK back here. This end of the ice is pretty well cared for. You take it now and go. Go! Feel the freedom in order to feel that dynamic, creative, offensive player and go out and score....That was my job. And it was to try to deliver a feeling.”
“Hate demands existence, and he who hates has to show his hate in appropriate actions and behaviors; in a sense, he has to become hate. That is why the Americans have substituted discrimination for lynching.”

Source : Frantz Fanon (1967). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.53, Pluto Press
“Not until the final draft do I force myself to remember that I'm going to have to think about how it will affect other people.”

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