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" Our minds are not our friends when they realize we have work to do - they're our enemies. "
Melvin Van Peebles
Realize
Friends
Minds
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" The key to empowerment is no more complicated than what Jesse Jackson said, 'We are somebody.' But the 'We are somebody' I would like to be in the larger sense: not just the urban African-American but homo sapiens in general - We are somebody. "
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" 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. "
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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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Down
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" The graphic novel is a great form that can be used to marry the book format with the movie. "
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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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" If you give people something they want, they'll come and see it. "
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Want
" You have to not let yourself believe you can't. Do what you can do within the framework of what you have, and don't look outside - look inside. "
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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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Chicago
Side
" The artistic world is one of high nuance. "
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High
World
Nuance
" I'm pretty much a loner. That's not good, bad, or indifferent. "
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Bad
Pretty
Much
" The studios didn't really take independent films seriously, till 'Sweetback' was such a financial success. "
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Take
Financial
Seriously
" After 'Don't Play Us Cheap,' I got very busy with theater and Wall Street. "
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Play
Wall
Us
" It wasn't really me who invented rap. I stole the idea from Aristide Bruant. "
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Invented
Idea
Rap
" Me and modesty don't mix. "
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Me
Modesty
Mix
" Whitey is uptight about offending blacks without really knowing what offends blacks. "
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Blacks
Without
Knowing
" With 'Sweetback,' I just put it together a little bit at a time. I didn't do it on anybody's grant. I did it like any other young executive - by cheating and stealing! "
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Cheating
Young
Together
" 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. "
Melvin Van Peebles
Say
Movies
Think
" 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. "
Melvin Van Peebles
Pain
Hate
Good
" 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. "
Melvin Van Peebles
Eat
You
Horrible
" A bumblebee can't fly. He's aerodynamically unsound. But he doesn't know that. "
Melvin Van Peebles
He
Know
Unsound
" Why not have fun, man? If I feel like doing something, I just go ahead and do it. "
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Fun
Man
Ahead
" I didn't even know I had a legacy. "
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Even
Had
Know
" When we talk about 'Sweetback,' yes, it stars the whole black movement, but it's also the first time an independent film made that kind of money and was that successful and taken seriously. "
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Time
Black
Money
" When I was a kid, from 10 years old, I worked every day for my dad, huh? Never played basketball. I never played tennis - never did. We worked so that we could eat. "
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Kid
Eat
Day
" Making 'Sweetback' took an exorbitant amount of energy and time. "
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Energy
Making
Took
" There's something on Wall Street called PIG - panic, ignorance, and greed. Those are the big sins. I'm not greedy, I knew I was ignorant, and I didn't panic. "
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Ignorant
Greed
Pig
" 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. "
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Clever
Enough
Real
" Don't ask me something if you don't want to know. Because I will tell you. "
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You
Want
Tell
" In trying to cross over to the mainstream, some people stopped writing what they witnessed. "
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Some People
Writing
People