People forget that art is not just a piece of entertainment. It is the place where we collectively … - Wendell Pierce

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You have to create your self-belief by going to your core to find the probable reasons for the negativity in you, and then demolish them.

Wendell Pierce

People forget that art is not just a piece of entertainment. It is the place where we collectively declare our values and then act on them. That's one of the most powerful things we have as a community: our culture and our art. And it's the intersection between life and how people deal with life. It's the most important thing we do.

Art, Culture, Entertainment, People, Powerful, Values

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The real question is, Why do you feel as though that's emasculating? A man can't have a conflict? When you try to do art, it's how it lands on people, and hopefully some people will see it the way that I saw it, which is all of these awful choices come from the place of a man who's damaged.

Art, Damaged, Men, Question, Real, Way

Art imitating life and life imitating art, and it's beyond the job - it will always be a marked period in my life.

Art, Imitating, Jobs, Life, Marked, Periods

We don't eat to live, we live to eat because that's a part of the creativity of the day.

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The whole idea of jazz came about was the interpretation of the human dialogue, trading fours. When someone's soloing and someone picks up the solo and plays it back at 'em, it was the imitation of the human dialogue. It was how people spoke, through music.

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Culture is the intersection between people and dealing with the journey of life itself. How to deal with life, how a people deals with life is literally manifested in its culture, in its food, in its music, in its art, in the way you dance, the way you communicate.

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