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- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I wanted to do is put forth, musically, the idea that there's hope that we can change the system.
- Nov 07, 2020
'Redistributing the wealth' - that phrase gets used so much that you almost get numb to it.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a lot of leaders that talk about ending things like oppression - whether it's discrimination or getting a job - but the reason for all of this stuff is somebody's making a profit off our backs. That's the reason why black people were brought here in the first place. It was a profit motive.
- Giving
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Box would not play 'Takin' These' because we had a scene where we were taking furniture out of Rockefeller's mansion and giving the stuff out on the street for free.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought my parents were always having card parties - and they were - but they were actually also having meetings to organize people. My older sister would be part of youth organizing, and she'd have dance parties. People would be dancing and talking about how to improve their neighborhood.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to get worried about writing a love song, because everyone else is doing them, and there are already enough of them out there. But I came to realize that there's a reason for that: Love is powerful, one of the most powerful emotions there is.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any collective action is made up of individuals who one day decided not to sit and watch anymore.
- Step
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- Nov 07, 2020
The truth is, every movie is a message movie. It's just that most movies have messages that are in lock step with the status quo.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people listen to Jay-Z, they're working all day or trying to work and pay their bills, and what they hear is someone who's free. Who doesn't have to worry about the electricity. But all we're taught is that those who are rich deserve to be rich because they worked harder than the rest of us, or they're smarter.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a problem with superheroes in general because, politically, superheroes are cops. Superheroes work with the government to uphold the law. And who do the laws work for?
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
With a movie, you have the power of putting out an idea about the world and for people to take it seriously.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all - even at a base level, even a Republican - understand that the people with the money are the ones with the power. We all learn that.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020