American - Musician | April 1, 1971 -
There are a lot of leaders that talk about ending things like oppression - whether it's discrimination or getting a job - but the reason for all of this stuff is somebody's making a profit off our backs. That's the reason why black people were brought here in the first place. It was a profit motive.
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The Box would not play 'Takin' These' because we had a scene where we were taking furniture out of Rockefeller's mansion and giving the stuff out on the street for free.
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I used to get worried about writing a love song, because everyone else is doing them, and there are already enough of them out there. But I came to realize that there's a reason for that: Love is powerful, one of the most powerful emotions there is.
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The truth is, every movie is a message movie. It's just that most movies have messages that are in lock step with the status quo.
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When people listen to Jay-Z, they're working all day or trying to work and pay their bills, and what they hear is someone who's free. Who doesn't have to worry about the electricity. But all we're taught is that those who are rich deserve to be rich because they worked harder than the rest of us, or they're smarter.
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I have a problem with superheroes in general because, politically, superheroes are cops. Superheroes work with the government to uphold the law. And who do the laws work for?
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Trying to get somebody to read your script and you're a musician? That's the last person whose script you're gonna read!
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With a movie, you have the power of putting out an idea about the world and for people to take it seriously.
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We all - even at a base level, even a Republican - understand that the people with the money are the ones with the power. We all learn that.
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The opportunism of electoral politics makes people lie to each other.
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There's this zeitgeist happening, and people are more open to 'Sorry to Bother You' being a hit with 'Get Out' being out there. But that zeitgeist is also happening because of the movements going back to Occupy and Black Lives Matter. Usually, film is years behind. It just so happens that, this time, everything is lining up.
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I think most people would love for us to be a socialist society.
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