American - Musician | April 1, 1971 -
That existential crisis is something you rarely see portrayed by black characters; the idea that people think about their own existence and that they have hopes and dreams is taken away from people of color in their representation.
Boots Riley
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I've always been about, how do I get my ideas out to the most people?
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Making movies seemed so impossible as far as getting my ideas funded.
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I'd been working since I was eleven so I could buy my own comic books. I was that kid knocking on your door, selling subscriptions to the paper and crying because I wasn't going to sell that last paper that would allow me to go to Disneyland.
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My father is from North Carolina, and he got rid of his drawl really fast. He's very much about speaking correctly, enunciating in certain ways.
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I chose to do art in the way I always do it, which is with all the crazy contradictions of life in there.
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This idea of 'cool capitalism' is still capitalism. It doesn't matter if Elon Musk quotes Nas.
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That punk approach of 'We don't wanna get big' is really a bourgeois thing. It's not a tactic of people that actually have been successful at changing things.
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I was actually really good at telemarketing.
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Going to school in San Francisco, you're not going to meet as many people that are making films as you would if you went to film school in New York or L.A.
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What I like about music is that you make a song, you've got your ideas in it, and people make that song part of their life - they hang out with their friends to it, they get in arguments to it, they get married to it, they get divorced to it. It's in their world, and it takes on its own life.
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Art can end up answering questions or asking questions. But when it's not connected to actual movements, it doesn't ask the right questions.
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