"Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized."

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H. Rap Brown

#People Quotes #Community Quotes #Black Quotes

“I have tried to remain a working, cutting-edge journalist and I don't do it the way everybody else does it. And I think that's the difference.”
“Basically, all anyone has to do is ask me for fun details or tell me to be creative, and my mind turns to mud. I am instantly the most boring person you've ever met.”
“Russia has gone through eight years of continuing economic pain.”
“We have the kind of self-made-man myth, which says that super-successful people did it themselves.”
“The actor's physical type isn't and shouldn't be the main consideration. Does the actor look the part? It is the simplest question to deal with. The director deludes himself who yields to the temptation to believe that an affirmative answer settles the matter. An actor's looks will impress an audience initially, but after his first five minutes on stage it becomes aware of what he or she communicates (or fails to communicate) through acting!”
“The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, and so are you.”
“We're genuinely happy if some musicians of this younger generation are influenced by our music, as we were ourselves influenced 10 years ago by older musicians.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Truth is a great flirt.”

Source : Franz Liszt (1979). “The Letters of Franz Liszt to Olga Von Meyendorff, 1871-1886, in the Mildred Bliss Collection at Dumbarton Oaks”, p.427, Dumbarton Oaks

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