American - Actor | August 21, 1932 -
When I got to Paris, they welcomed me and showed my films. It was August of 1960, and I didn't have a penny in my pocket. But they had done something very dangerous: They had given me encouragement.
Melvin Van Peebles
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I do what I want to do.
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Blacks had a huge role in settling the West, but you'd never know it from Western movies.
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A bumblebee can't fly. He's aerodynamically unsound. But he doesn't know that.
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In the morning, I get the paper. I look in the obituary column. If I don't see myself in there, I get up.
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If you look down a barrel of a gun... you don't forget it.
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I'm pretty much a loner. That's not good, bad, or indifferent.
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The graphic novel is a great form that can be used to marry the book format with the movie.
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The key to empowerment is no more complicated than what Jesse Jackson said, 'We are somebody.' But the 'We are somebody' I would like to be in the larger sense: not just the urban African-American but homo sapiens in general - We are somebody.
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My life and career is defined by the constant pursuit of new forms of culture and self-expression.
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I graduated from college when I was 20. To get enough money to finish college, I went into the ROTC, and I was an officer in the Air Force before I could buy a drink.
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As a navigator, I started studying astronomy because sometimes you're not able to use the equipment, so you'd have to do it the old-fashioned way, figuring out what you were seeing in the sky.
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