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

Melvin Van Peebles

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" 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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" Many times, I get young people asking, 'What do you think about black movies?' And I say, 'What are you talking about? You mean Hollywood movies that have black people in them?' It's gone back to that, and that's not the same thing as a black movie. "

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" Scars are the price you pay for success. "

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" What some folks find funny, other folks find tragic. "

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" I went to a number of schools when I was a kid on the south side of Chicago. "

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