- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
Right now, the machine keeps us totally busy. If you don't react against it, you'll end up letting yourself go and become the perfect consumer. That's what they want.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only direction I can give to an actor, a good actor who knows his skills, is, 'Here are those words. They're yours. Make them yours. Don't tell the text but be the text.' That means you have to be the emotion of the text.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
A black character is much more than just a black character; he's a character, period. So show the world as it is. Even with all your artistic license, you make a political choice.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you stand up in the morning, you look in the mirror and say, 'I'm black.' No. You wake up and you see yourself as a human being in the world, but you raise discussion and raise aggression, the anger that you confront every day of your life, whether you want to or not.
- Motivation
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there is something that determines my motivation in the work I do, it's the sense of injustice.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never considered myself as somebody in exile because, different to my father who, yes, was in exile because he left Haiti as an adult, for me it was just to be somewhere else. I carried Haiti with me everywhere, but I also carried, you know, my youth in a public school in Brooklyn. It's part of who I am as well.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never wanted to be current in the sense that I follow the news, I follow the historical moment of the day. It was always, for me, to go back to the fundamentals.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not about the past; it's about knowing your history so that you can fight in the present. Otherwise, you don't know who the real enemy is, what the real issue is, because it had been covered by many layers of bad information, of lies, and manipulation.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
We forget that everything has a meaning, everything has an impact on you. It's what we call soft power today. Nothing is innocent.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to learn how to organize, not just to let our anger explode. We need to have organization for the long run, not for one issue, not for one murder, but for everything coming to us in the next 20, 30 years.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
James Baldwin is probably, for me and for many other people, one of the most extraordinary authors in this country, black or white. And he is somebody who changed my life.
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- Nov 07, 2020