Melvin Van Peebles Quotes

What happened when 'Sweetback' made all that money, the studios were in a very difficult position. They wanted the money, but they didn't the message. This marked the advent of the caricatures which became known as blaxploitation.

Melvin Van Peebles

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 21, 1932

Topics

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I believe couples should have separate bedrooms.

Andrea Dworkin

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It's impossible to consider living without ideals. However, when ideas lead to ideology, that's a very dangerous thing. Ideology then leads to creating the image of an enemy, and it leads to the murder and massacre that we've seen since the beginning of time.

Michael Haneke

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I was terrified watching 'Civil War' for the first time.

Tom Holland

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My wife can't cook at all. She made chocolate mousse. An antler got stuck in my throat.

Rodney Dangerfield

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Dancers are made, not born.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

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My musicians know all of my music, and so that makes for something different.

Dianne Reeves

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I never went to school for directing. I studied theater with a director. I followed plays to see how a director would talk to the actors. I tried to make my own school.

Denis Villeneuve

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Rosa Parks' courage, determination, and tenacity continue to be an inspiration to all those committed to non-violent protest and change nearly half a century later.

Bob Filner

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I feel it is an obligation to help people understand the relation of food to agriculture and the relationship of food to culture.

Alice Waters

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The fancy term for what America has squandered in the past year and a half or so is legitimacy.

Todd Gitlin

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There were plenty of other hominids, but they disappeared, probably because humans exterminated them, but nobody knows for sure.

Noam Chomsky

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I've been in motorsport my whole life since I was eight years of age.

Nigel Mansell

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