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All Quotes by author - Melvin Van Peebles

" A bumblebee can't fly. He's aerodynamically unsound. But he doesn't know that. "

" After 'Don't Play Us Cheap,' I got very busy with theater and Wall Street. "

" As a navigator, I started studying astronomy because sometimes you're not able to use the equipment, so you'd have to do it the old-fashioned way, figuring out what you were seeing in the sky. "

" Before I made 'Sweetback,' I had a three-picture deal with Columbia and enough juice, if I was real clever with it, to proclaim that I wanted to do an independent film. "

" Before me, music soundtracks were sort of afterthoughts. "

" Big publishers want you to change this and change that. I'd rather go to a little publisher - who needs the tsuris. "

" Blacks are tired of seeing whites saying, 'I understand you.' You need a black to direct a black film. "

" Blacks had a huge role in settling the West, but you'd never know it from Western movies. "

" Don't ask me something if you don't want to know. Because I will tell you. "

" I didn't even know I had a legacy. "

" I do what I want to do. "

" If I had to find one characteristic that is most symbolic of me, I think I am tenacious. "

" If I was just a creator, I would still be back in the Lincoln annex in the Post Office. "

" If you give people something they want, they'll come and see it. "

" If you look down a barrel of a gun... you don't forget it. "

" I graduated from college when I was 20. To get enough money to finish college, I went into the ROTC, and I was an officer in the Air Force before I could buy a drink. "

" I have no illusions about running. I hate running. If I could feel as good as I felt at 30 without running, I wouldn't do it, but that's not the way it works! So - no pain, no gain. "

" I intend to stay dangerous. "

" I'm from the Southside of Chicago. "

" I'm not a normal director. You can't look at me that way. What's kept me alive is my technical skill at doing other things. "

" I'm pretty much a loner. That's not good, bad, or indifferent. "

" I'm too short to play basketball and too nervous to steal. "

" In the morning, I get the paper. I look in the obituary column. If I don't see myself in there, I get up. "

" In trying to cross over to the mainstream, some people stopped writing what they witnessed. "

" I said to my kids, 'Learn the business of America if you want to be an artist in America. The rest of that stuff, the art part, you could pick up in an hour and a half.' "

" It must be horrible to do things that you don't like hoping to please other people, and they don't like it either, and you've got to eat it. "

" It wasn't really me who invented rap. I stole the idea from Aristide Bruant. "

" I used to be the third person in the secret jets we had - they were secret at the time - a jet bomber that flew at immense heights carrying atomic bombs. "

" I've never been to film school. I had to leave this country to make a film. All they would let me do in Hollywood was be a messenger. "

" I walk down the street; the garbagemen will shout at me, and we'll talk. That's a pleasure when people feel, 'If he can do it, I can, too.' "

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