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Every relationship can feel saturated by market logic or at best purchased at the price of the immiseration of others.

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Violence is a part of America. I don't want to single out rap music. Let's be honest. America's the most violent country in the history of the world, that's just the way it is. We're all affected by it.

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I believe in destiny. But I also believe that you can’t just sit back and let destiny happen. A lot of times, an opportunity might fall into your lap, but you have to be ready for that opportunity. You can’t sit there waiting on it. A lot of times you are going to have to get out there and make it happen.

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I think black people have to be in control of their own image because film is a powerful medium. We can't just sit back and let other people define our existence.

Existence, Image, People, Powerful, Sit, Thinking

You gotta make your own way. You gotta find a way. You gotta get it done. It's hard. It's tough. That's what I tell my students every day in class. I've been very fortunate. Some people might call me a hardhead, but I'm not going to let other people dictate to me who I should be or the stories I should tell. That doesn't register with me.

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It comes down to this: black people were stripped of our identities when we were brought here, and it's been a quest since then to define who we are.

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I may have been born yesterday, but I stayed up all night.

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