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

Melvin Van Peebles

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" 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. "

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" Our minds are not our friends when they realize we have work to do - they're our enemies. "

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" I was getting my Ph.D. in Holland - I speak Dutch - for a number of years before I moved to France because I had one of those offers you couldn't turn down. They offered me to come and do my films. "

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" Somebody once asked me, 'Melvin, how'd you get to the top?' It was simple. Nobody would let me in at the bottom. "

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" What happened when 'Sweetback' made all that money, the studios were in a very difficult position. They wanted the money, but they didn't the message. This marked the advent of the caricatures which became known as blaxploitation. "

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

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

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" No one - black, white, or any different - walks away from a three-picture deal with a studio. That's every filmmaker's dream. But it wasn't mine. "

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

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" Music - some people just don't know that part of me. "

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