- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm trying to get Americans to see that we're all pretty much the same. I believe it; I was taught God doesn't have a color. I want to better the planet a little bit.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to be able to toss the thing out. You can't fall in love with your characters, and you have to know when to fight - and when to quit.
- Creative People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Spike Lee listens a lot. He's one of the quietest creative people I've ever met.
- Cannot
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- Nov 07, 2020
I cannot recall any moment of clarity about becoming a writer. I always liked to read. That's what did it.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
As far as making a living, if plumbing earned more, I'd probably do it. At least you can leave the job at home once the tools are put away. A writer works in his mind 24/7.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're learning a tremendous amount of propaganda from television and the Internet.
- Able
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- Nov 07, 2020
Atticus Finch is, you know, he was just his whole - the business of his modesty and his ability to see tomorrow and to try to buttress his knowledge of what was coming for his kids was something that I'll never - as a father I'm not able to do.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
My wife and kids like the quiet and the countryside - I still find that kind of quiet hard to listen to.
- Flew
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- Nov 07, 2020
The starting point of all great jazz has got to be format, a language that you can work within that, in some ways, is much tighter than the blues or even gospel. It's all working towards the same destination - the difference being that Miles Davis flew there, and I'm still taking the subway.
- Details
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a journalist, the details always tell the story.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're interviewing someone, even your mother - you have to sort of deal with you have to get some objective space from yourself and the person but you also have to find what's the best way to get the information from that person.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People don't realize you're blowing over changes, time changes, harmony, different keys. I mark a point in my solo where it's got to peak at point D I go to A, B, C D then I'm home.
- Headlights
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- Nov 07, 2020
I put headlights in Ford vans. I still drive a Ford.
- Interested
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not interested in food. It's just fuel.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family is my career.
- Kind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Be kind to the living.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm proud of 'Miracle at St. Anna' and I loved it; there's no question in my mind it's as good as any movie that came out in 2007.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wish all critics, no matter their color, were more sophisticated when it comes to the moral questions a film like 'St. Anna' is trying to raise.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd like to do something involving jazz. But books are how I earn my living, and I'd like to stay with the horse I rode in on.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's the same old story. Nothing in this world happens unless white folks says it happens. And therein lies the problem of being a professional black storyteller - writer, musician, filmmaker.
- Gingrich
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- Nov 07, 2020
Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he's a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he's a novel.
- Fix
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- Nov 07, 2020
Until you expose the cancer, you can't fix it.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
The question of religion in black America is something filmmakers don't want to touch.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
The black church will accept anybody.
- Hear
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a writer, you have to be near people and hear stuff. I'm a hamburger and cheese kind of fellow; I'm not Henry David Thoreau.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't get me started on Americans and war. One of the things I learnt over in Italy is how they mythologised the war so that it's all good old gung-ho guys from Omaha and ignored everyone else's role.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just don't see the point in sitting around hollering the blues over things you have no control over. It's all in God's hands.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you don't have humor, you're not going to make it. You're going to be one of those people who walks around with your head about to explode.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't come from Lake Wobegon, and that world is not mine. It's not that funny to me. It's funny to other people, and I'm not judging it, but the world that I come from is not considered funny by other people as well. There's so much pain in it.
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020
People process pain differently. My family, we were pretty humorous about things that went on.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read more history books than anything else.
- Door
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not one of those who can listen to music and write. I need the door closed. Windows shut. Facing the wall. No birds tweeting, views of nature, and so forth.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can play Mozart all you want and pretend that it gives you class, but what is class, you know? Class is a bus driver on the M103 who gets off the bus to help somebody on board even though he's tired, he's exhausted, and he's two months behind on his mortgage. That's real class.
- Creative
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't be a creative person if I'm a celebrity.
- Hard Part
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- Nov 07, 2020
The hard part about writing about a guy like John Brown is that he was so serious, and his cause was so serious, that most of what's been written about him is really serious and, in my opinion, a little bit boring.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the language of, you know, the old black country man with a blues guitar and... boots and the quick banter.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The abolitionists were not like the rugged people out West, and they were not like John Brown, either. They were people who made speeches and did politics.
- Frederick
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you meet your heroes, you're always going to be disappointed. Frederick Douglass was a great man, but would I want my daughter to marry him? Probably not. That doesn't mean that I don't think he's a great man.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
James Brown was the Monday-to-Friday guy. He was the hardest man in show business. He was like your dad and your uncle: He showed up, and he hit hard.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
James Brown's music still sounds as fresh and as good and as new as it did when he first created it.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
A band is not a democracy: It's show business.
- Teaches
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing teaches writing.
- Leaf
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- Nov 07, 2020
I type most of my books for the first chapter or two - I use a manual typewriter for the first 50 pages or so - and then I move to the computer. It helps me keep the work lean so I don't end up spending 10 pages describing a leaf.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you can whistle the melody, then the song will stick. But if you need a bunch of machines to make it sound good, you're probably not writing anything that's going to last a long time.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My main problem with fiction is that once my characters get moving, you just have to follow them along and get out of the way of the story, but sometimes they pull me in too many directions, and I need to focus.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of my work is done when everyone else is asleep.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I go through periods listening to specific types of music. Because I'm a musician, listening to music is... it's a bit like work for me. A little bit.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a house with a lot of kids, brothers and sisters. So I don't mind a lot of talking, yelling, playing. I can tune most of that out.
- Depressing
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- Nov 07, 2020