My uncle, who was a little more flamboyant, always said the guy who dressed the best was Fred Astaire.
The dog won't bite if you beat Him with a bone
I don't have a drinking problem 'Cept when I can't get a drink.
Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk.
The trick is to have a career and have a family. It's like having two dogs that hate each other and you have to take them for a walk every night.
Oh, I'm not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
I'm not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.
Faith, faith, faith in ourselves, faith, faith in God, this is the secret of greatness. If you have faith in all the three hundred and thirty millions of your mythological Gods, and in all the Gods which foreigners have now and again introduced into your midst, and still have no faith in yourselves, there is no salvation for you.
I think this mythology - that we're all beyond race, of course our police officers aren't racist, of course our politicians don't mean any harm to people of color - this idea that we're beyond all that (so it must be something else) makes it difficult for young people as well as the grown-ups to be able to see clearly and honestly the truth of what's going on. It makes it difficult to see that the backlash against the Civil Rights Movement manifested itself in the form of mass incarceration, in the form of defunding and devaluing schools serving kids of color and all the rest.
Headhunters is a popcorn flick - you can laugh and shout and do whatever you want having great fun. But at the bottom of it all there's this theme of being honest to the people you love. I want to be that. And if Headhunters is one of the movies that help me realise that, then that's perfect.
Even for a girl like me, then, there comes a day when she can stop surviving and start living. To survive, you have to look good or talk good. But to end your story well-- here is the truth-- you have to talk yourself out of it.